ASTRO: NGC 1501

Had slightly better seeing 2.6 rather than the 3.25 that's so common
here so decided to try binning 1x1 for this guy. Worked rather well but
the 22 meg FITS gave my one gig laptop memory overload so processing was
slow. Guess I'll have to invest in more memory if I do this very often.

Anyway, it's a nice blue planetary and, for a change, I didn't blow out
the central star. I severely cropped the image to a more reasonable
size but left it at 0.51" per pixel.

14" LX200R@f/10, L=9x2' binned 1x1, RGB 6x2' binned 2x2, STL-11000M,
Paramount ME

Rick
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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".