Dragons of Ara Widefield

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NGC 6188 – Firebird Nebula in Ara – OSC v1

A well-known target revisited with the Epsilon-130D widefield astrograph. NGC 6188 – the Firebird Nebula or the Fighting Dragons of Ara – energized by the NGC 6193 cluster. Below the main emission nebula, this field includes NGC 6164/65 – the Dragon’s Egg.

More details at Astrobin.

IAS – Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V.– Hakos Observatory, Namibia

IAS remote telescope
Takahashi Epsilon-130 f/3.3, 10 Micron GM3000 HPS, ASI2600MC
2 panel mosaic, 551x 120s, gain 100, offset 50, -5C, 80 flats, 30 darks, 50 bias
Total time: 66120s / 18h22
Data acquisition Aug 2026: IAS remote team / Martin Junius
Data calibration/integration: PixInsight WBPP
Image processing: PixInsight, BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator, Lightroom

NA, altar, ara, astrofotografie, astronomie, astronomy, astrophotography, dragons egg, emission nebula, emissionsnebel, epsilon-130 remote, fighting dragons, firebird nebula, hakos, hakos guest farm, ias, ias observatory, ias observatory hakos, khomas, namibia, ngc, ngc6164, ngc6165, ngc6188, ngc6193, open cluster, remote observatories, remote sternwarten, star, star cluster, stars, stern, sterne, sternhaufen, world
NGC 6188 – Firebird Nebula in Ara – OSC v1 Annotated