The Star Queen In M16 in Serpens False Color
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The Star Queen in M16 in Serpens in Emission Line filtered False Color
Date(s) taken: 18 August, 2001
Site: Montebello Open Space Preserve, Santa Clara County, Ca.

Telescope Configuration: Celestron CM1400 with Televue TV101 Piggybacked on AP1200GTO mount.

Image Specifics:
      -Emission line filters used for "False Color"
      -LRGB (1x L= Lumicon Deepsky @300 seconds, 1x R= Lumicon Ha @300 seconds, 1x G= Lumicon OIII @300 seconds, 1x B= Lumicon Hb @300 seconds)
      -Telescope: Celestron CM1400 OTA with Celestron f/7 focal reducer (F = 2288mm, f/7)
      -Camera: SBIG ST7E NABG with CFW8 Color Filter Wheel, Imager at -10 C.
      -Mount: AP1200GTO Selfguided via ST7E
      -CCDSOFT v5 used for image capture,  Photoshop 5.5 used for LRGB combine
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