M76 the little Dumbbell. This planetary nebula lies in the constellation of Perseus. I took this image using my ten inch f/4.8 reflector, a Vixen Atlux mount, PHD auto guiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera. I captured five minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat field frames to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image. The total exposure times was 60 minutes using a H-alpha filter, 40 minute using an O111 filter and 45 minutes using an S11 filter.
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M76; Hubble Palette
M76; Bicolour
