M17

“Omega or Swan Nebula”

Constellation- Sagittarius

Right Ascension: 18h 21m 12s

Declination: -16° 10' 55"

Distance: ~5,000 light years

Visual Brightness: 6th mag

Apparent Dimension: ~46 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- August 6-8^th, 2006

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -15C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- RGB = 7 x 600 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in AstroArt 2.0