SH2-86 with Six Filters

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Photographer Wes Stauffer
Optics A&M RC 400 IM-T
Mount Paramount ME
Guiding SBIG ST 402 through MMOAG with ProTrack engaged
Camera Apogee U16M at -25C
Filters Astrodon Ha &  RGB Gen II
Dates/Times October 15 - 30, 2010
Location Tiburon, CA
Exposure Details 720 min Ha, 630 min SII, 540 min OIII and 120 min each RGB
Acquisition CCDSoft 5 and The Sky 6 Controlled via CCDAutopilot 5
Processing CCDStack, Photoshop CS4
Notes I used lots of narrowband data to help bring out the details in this image.  Ha was mapped to red while SII was mapped to Orange and OIII was mapped to blue.

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SH2 86