PACMAN Nebula

Always a fun object to shoot. In this case, I used my small refractor with my One Shot Color camera. 

Taken from my home in Illinois under Bortle ~8 skies, I get decent results with a older but very good Light Pollution filter, the Optolong L-Pro.

NGC 281 or IC 1590 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula lies at a distance of ~9,500 light years in our own Milky Way galaxy. 

The PacMan resides in the wonderful constellation of Cassiopeia 

Photo Capture Info:

~5 hours worth of 3 minute exposures stacked.

Equipment Used:


The Chair or 'W' of Cassiopeia 

Annotated Image with Coordinates

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