NGC1491 - Emission nebula in Perseus
NGC1491 - Emission nebula in Perseus
  • Description: NGC1491 (AKA LBN704) - Emission nebula in Perseus is 21 arc minutes in size and listed in the RASC 110 Finest NGC list by Alan Dyer. This is a digital stack of two film images. Colour from a 1991 cold camera shot, contrast and detail from a 1993 tech-pan shot.

  • Camera: Canda Technologies dry ice camera
  • Filters: Lumicon Deep Sky
  • Scope: 8" F6 Newtonian
  • Mount: Modified Meade DS16 Mount
  • Exposure: 50 minutes on Kodak Ektachrome 400
  • Location: near Carseland, Alberta.
  • Date: 31 December 1991
  • Second photo:
  • Camera: Olympus OM1
  • Filters: None
  • Scope: 8" F6 Newtonian
  • Mount: Modified Meade DS16 Mount
  • Exposure: 60 minutes on Kodak hypered Tech Pan
  • Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Alberta.
  • Date: 13 November 1993
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