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Little Dumbell Nebula (M76)

The Small Dumbbell Nebula M76. Raw stack as FITS available for download.

The Little Dumbell Nebula M76 is one of the smaller yet interesting objects

This image was done with a Celestron C8, the original 0.63x reducer/corrector and an ASI533MC (uncooled). Everything was mounted on a Skywatcher HEQ5 (with Rowan Belt Mod) together with 15 kg of counterweights on my backyard pier. Integration time is a 6.5 hrs from a single night.

Raw stack from PixInsight can be downloaded here. It was calibrated with bias and flat frames. Standard settings from WBPP (2024) were used, incl. CFA drizzle at scale 1. It is slightly oversampled. This is 131x 180s at gain 101.

My processed imaged with details can be found on Astrobin. You can read about the this galaxy here on Wikipedia.

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