Wallpaper author:
Philip Yates
20 May 2022
The Rim Nebula from CHI 1
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.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 6188
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 250 Dec -48.5
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................29 Mar 2020 - 27 May 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 704 | 10h10m | 52 |
| SII | 553 | 7h50m | 51 |
| OIII | 541 | 7h40m | 51 |