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Sharpless Sh-2-27 Dust only

North of the constellation of Scorpius an immense but faint emission nebula called Sharpless 2-27 is located. This red HII structure has an apparent width of 10 degrees, which corresponds to over twenty full moon diameters! Invisible to the human eye, it can only be revealed in deeply exposed astro photographs.

 

This is an RGB only photograph showing the vast amounts of dust in this area.

See the combined RGB/Ha picture here:

www.flickr.com/photos/147135308@N08/51232477052

 

120x 2 minutes RGB at f/3.5 and ISO1600

Taken during 4 nights between April and June 2020 in rural Upper Austria with a Nikon D750 and a 135mm Sigma Art lens. Tracking with Astrotrac; processed with Astro PIxel Processor, Starnet++ and Photoshop.

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Uploaded on June 8, 2021
Taken on June 13, 2020