Each of the red, green, and blue images is a combination of 3 images, each of 480 seconds The images were taken with a Pictor 1616 with a Pictor 616 filter wheel attached to an Meade 10" F/6.3 telescope. A Pictor 201XT was attached to an ETX for guiding. Meade Red, Green, and Blue filters were used.
Each of the images was corrected with a dark frame and a flat field. The same flat field was used for each of the color channels. Each was median filtered and logarithmically stretched
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