NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula

Hi all,

With a couple of rare clear nights in a row I got some time to have a crack at NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula.So I got all the luminance in one night the RGB the next. I'm quite happy with the Result

Image taken 16th&17th of September,New Haven Observatory Balbriggan.Through a Celestron 80ED piggybacked on a CGE14" with ATIK 16HR CCD guided through C14 with 6.3 focal reducer with phd guiding LRGB 180:60:60:60 No Flats with 1x1 Binning.Processed in ImagesPlus V2.8 And PhotoShop CS2.

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Hey Carl after seeing the luminance you got i knew that it was going to be a cracker and i was right well done.You managed to pick up some really fine detail within the nebula itself a fine example of LRGB imaging, the guiding looks spot on also.That ATIK16 hr is one hell of a ccd i cant wait to get out with my own but with uni starting on Monday it will probably be another 6 months before i can start exposures that long unless i can convince my lectures to let me do some sort of project with it? :lol:

Carl - what was the duration of your subs?

Hi Dave,

The luminance was 60x3min and RGB 20X3min each.

Very nice Carl, some nice colour in there.
Any chance of getting a ghost nebula to go with the pacman.

Superb photo Carl!

Now I'm going to ask a stupid question I first saw the "Pacman" game in the early '80s - it came after the Space Invaders and Asteroids games. So what was this nebula called before that?