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The "Seagull Nebula" (IC 2177) -- full color

The "Seagull Nebula" (IC 2177) -- full color RGB, H-alpha, Oxygen-III
IC 2177 (Sh2-292) also referred to as the Seagull Nebula by amateur astronomers is a nebula of glowing hydrogen-alpha gas near the border of Canis Major and Monoceros.
This is a joint project of James Foster and Michael A. Stecker.
Click on the image to see a high resolution photo.
f
ile: ic2177Seagull-15-RGB3-MAS1a.jpg

Photographic Data
telescope:
Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P (10-inch f/4 Newtonian telescope with coma corrector)
FL= 1,000 mm

mount:
Astro-Physics 1200 GTO
Guiding: off-axis

imaging camera:
ZWO ASI6200MM true color shot with Hydrogen-alpha, red, green and blue filters

exposure and filters:
A total exposure time of 4.2 hours with a ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro full-frame monochrome camera.
 Filters/exposures: Red 105 minutes, Green 45 minutes, Blue 50 minutes

Processing:
Stacked and processed by James Foster with Maxim DL software and post-processed by Michael Stecker in Photoshop Elements 2021
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photographic site:
James Foster observatory at Frazier Park California
(Bortle 4 at 5,500 ft elevstion)