NGC 3132 (Southern Ring Nebula)
Winner Image in the telescope Live Contest December 2023
From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was data from the galaxy NGC 3132, located in the constellation Vela.
The data set was used for the monthly Telescope Live contest and the resulting image was chosen as winner image in the expert tier.
The images were taken with the following equipment (Telescope Live CHI-3):
| Location | El Sauce Observatory, Chile |
| Telescope | ASA RC-1000AZ |
| Focal length [mm] | 6780 |
| Focal ratio | 6.8 |
| Mount | ASA Alt-Az DDM |
| Camera | FLI Proline 16803 |
| Filter | L:R:G:B |
| Exposure time [min] | 20:20:20:20 |
| Resolution | 0.274″/px |
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
The faintest star in this image has an apparent magnitude of approx. 20.6 magG (GAIA DR2).
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