IC4685

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Constellation- Sagittarius

Right Ascension: 18h  9m 18s

Declination: -23° 59' 00"

Distance:  light years

Visual Brightness:  mag

Apparent Dimension:  60 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- July 11, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ATIK 383L Mono @ -20C, piggybacked on a NexStar11GPS autoguided with ST-8XE

Integrations-  L = 12 x 300 seconds binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDSoft, processed with Astroart 5 and Photoshop CS5