Wallpaper author:
Philip Yates
20 Jan 2022
NGC 6188 - The Rim Nebula - aka 'The Fighting Dragons of Ara'
Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens of light-years long. The emission nebula is found near the edge of an otherwise dark large molecular cloud in the southern constellation Ara, about 4,000 light-years away.
Image captured using CHI-6 at Telescope Live
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 6188
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ML16200
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 249.92084 Dec -48.55611
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................13 Apr 2021 - 13 Apr 2021
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 600 | 50m | 5 |
| SII | 600 | 50m | 5 |
| OIII | 600 | 50m | 5 |