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The Tulip nebula in Hubble Space telescope palette (Sh2-101)

Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5.7×1016 km; 3.5×1016 mi) from Earth.

 

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M: Mesu 200

T: ODK10

C: QSI683 with 3nm Ha, OIII and SII Astrodon filters

 

25x1800s Ha

25x1800s OIII

24x1800s SII

 

Total exposure time 37 hours

 

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Uploaded on August 17, 2016