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The orange band which stretches from the lower left to the upper right is LBN 1495. That region of dense molecular clouds contains several stellar nurseries.
The small bright nebula which lies in the center of the top left quarter is LBN 785. The bluish region right of it is LBN782. The small spiral galaxy right of the center is IC359.
Toward the lower right there is LBN 777, also known as Baby Eagle Nebula (upside-down).
The stars in the image have been reduced by up to factor of 26 in order to make the faint nebula visible. That caused some artifacts around bright stars.
The color of the nebulae is influenced by scattering which makes dense region more opaque for blue light than for (infra)red radiation.
For that reason regions known as dark nebulae are reddish in that image.
FOV: | 6.25° × 4.0° | ||||||
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Date: | 12/2021 to 01/2022 | ||||||
Location: | Pulsnitz, Germany | ||||||
Instrument: | 2-3 × 100mm lens at f=300mm (3× array was not fully operational at beginning) | ||||||
Camera Sensor: | 2-3 × IMX455 (3× array was not fully operational at beginning) | ||||||
Orientation: | North is up (exactly) | ||||||
Scale: | 3 arcsec/pixel (at full resolution) | ||||||
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