Wallpaper author:
Jan Scheers
27 Feb 2021
NGC 3576 - Statue of Liberty Nebula
SHO-image of the “Statue of Liberty Nebula" (NGC 3576), acquired with the Planewave CDK24 telescope and FLI PL9000 camera in El Sauce Observatory, Chile (CHI-1), using 5 one click observation requests.
NGC 3576 is a spectacular star-forming region in the Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Southern Milky Way. It is located in the constellation of Carina, about 9000 light-years from Earth.
Total exposure 150 minutes. 10 subs of 300s with each narrowband filter (SII, H-alpha and OIII).
Processing with AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop CC (incl. AstroPanel 4.2, Astronomy & Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 3576
8 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 167.9575 Dec -61.30389
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................19 Jun 2020 - 03 Aug 2021
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 579 | 4h30m | 28 |
| SII | 621 | 4h50m | 28 |
| OIII | 600 | 4h40m | 28 |