M27 The :Dumbell" Nebula

        A ccd LRGB color image of the "Dumbell" nebula taken with my ST5C ccd camera with the FR-5C reducer and 11"    scope. This is a composite image of 17 each of RGB,binned 2x2 (red,green&blue] at 20 second exposures for a total of 340 seconds each and a 320 second exposure for the luminance or "black & white" image unbinned.     The individual 20 second exposures of red, blue and green images are automatically integrated by the "Track & Accumulate" software then     combined manually in CCdops for windows after removing hot & cold pixels and doing a little scaling to increase contrast.Then the RGB and the luminance images were manually combined using Iphoto Plus software aligning the luminance and RGB manually then stitching to create the final image .

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