IC 4601

Location: Warrumbungle Observatory, Australia (149 11 E, 31 16 S)

Date: Various dates during June 2013

Camera: QHY-9

Telescope: William Optics M120

Frames: Twelve 600 second exposures in luminance and Twelve 300 second exposures for each of RGB.

Processing: Stacked in CCDStack, balanced, curves, highlights and sharpened Photoshop SC5.

Notes: IC 4601 is located in a dusty region in Scorpius about 420 light-years away. The blue colour is the dust scattering light allowing more blue light to travel to our eyes. This type of nebula are called reflection nebuae.