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CED110 – Final Color

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CED 110 - Chile

CED 110 – Chile

This is a great subject to shoot. Lies way down at -77 degrees. It is an image of part of the large, reddish brown cloud CHA1 in Chamaleon – one of the nearest active star forming regions. The whole region is shrouded in a brown sugary dust, and has several interesting features scattered in it.

The bright central yellowish feature is CED 110. It is a double star system. The primary component is an 8th magnitude star that
is illuminating the area surrounding it – including the lamb’s head object above it. The beautiful reflection nebula below is CED 111. An especially dark and articulated dust cloud forms a triangle to the upper right with the 2 CED objects.

Note the small edge-on galaxy at the top right of the picture.

PlaneWave 12.5″ Astrograph with an ST11000 camera, Astodon Filters, and ASA gearless DDM-85 mount. F/8 LRGB (45/8min L, 8/8min each 2×2 RGB.