Combination of 15, 3 minute exposures using an H-alpha filter, 20, 3 minute exposures using Sulphur II filter
and 10, 3 minute exposures using an Oxygen III filter.
SBIG ST-8XE CCD. 300mm f/6 newtonian telescope at prime focus.
NGC 3199 has been variously described and an emission nebulae, a supernova remnent, and even as an old planetary nebula. In fact it is material ejected by a Wolf-Rayet star, very similar to the "Cresent nebula", NGC 6888 in the northern sky. The brighter portions are visible in an 8" telescope.
