Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)

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| Camera | : | Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD camera |
| Telescope | : | Vixen R200SS (8" f/4 Newtonian with coma corrector) |
| Filter | : | Astronomik RGB |
| Mount | : | Losmandy G-11 |
| Guiding | : | SBIG ST-4 |
| Date | : | 2005 Oct. 29 |
| Exposure | : | RG: 8x5 min, B: 10x5 min. Time did not permit the acquisition of a sufficient number of L frames, so for now it's just a straight RGB image. |
| Site | : | Schöbendorf, Brandenburg, Germany |
| Processing | : | Bias, dark frame, flat field correction, registration and digital development: IRAF; post-processing: Gimp |
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