
DATE
September 23rd, 2008
PHOTO
Focal: 2350mm, f/10
EQUIPMENT
Imaging Scope: C9.25
Camera: Canon 40D IR/UV filter
Guide camera: StarShoot Guider
Guide scope: Orion Short 80mm
Mount: Takahashi EM-400
SITE & CONDITIONS
Henry Coe State Park, San Jose, CA
Seeing: Good
Transparency: Ok
SOFTWARE
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: Photoshop & PixInsight
COMMENTS
If you wonder why there is so little detail in this image, that's because this planetary nebula is extremely small - at least as seen from Earth. It was the first light of the C9.25 and my first small planetary nebula.