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Faulkes Telescope Images

Deep Sky Objects - NGC 2371

Here are some images which were captured using the Faulkes Telescope North at the Going Nova Science Festival
which was held at Horizon Scotland at the Business Park in Forres in the north of Scotland.

The event ran from Thursday 10th November 2005 until Saturday 12th November.
During the Festival, the telescope was under the control of members of  the north of Scotland's two mainland astronomy clubs.
SIGMA, Moray's Astronomy Club and  Highlands Astronomical Society.

Designation
Date and Time
Exposures
NGC 2371, an 11.2 magnitude
planetary nebula in Gemini.
Nov 11 2005
11.25 to 11.28
RGB filters, 45 seconds.

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AT
Alan Tough

Red, green and blue filters.
This image was produced very rapidly immediately after acquisition using ds9 to convert the FITS files to jpegs and "The GIMP" to stack and align the three colours.
Alan Tough

Red, green and blue filters.
This image was produced  using FITS Liberator and Photoshop to do the processing.
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BL
Bill Leslie

Red, green and blue filters.
Processed with FITS Liberator and Photoshop.
Bill Leslie

Red, green and blue filters.
Processed with FITS Liberator and Photoshop,
with a grey-scale version of the image used to make a luminance layer.


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