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Description |
Barnard's Loop (catalogue designation Sh 2-276) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion which can be seen on the photo as a diffuse semi-circle. In this image the faint glowing hydrogen clouds spanning the whole constellation are visible. The photo was taken using the following equipement:
- Telescope: Nikon AF 85mm f/1,8
- Film: Kodak Royal Gold 400
- Exposure: 10 min at f/2,8
- Processing: Removing Vignetting and Unsharp Masking, inverting and equalizing of the red channel with Photoshop
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Source |
Homepage of Homepage of Philipp Salzgeber
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Date |
29. Mar. 1997
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Author |
Philipp Salzgeber
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Permission |
Philipp Salzgeber released the pictures under CC-BY-SA-2.0-AT, see bottom of http://salzgeber.at/astro/thumb.html (and before he also gave me the personal permission at forum.astronomie.de for GFDL-free usage)
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Other versions |
Image:Nebula-Barnard's-Loop.jpeg (original color version) |
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