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.
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