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2021, December 2021 Jason Matter 2021, December 2021 Jason Matter

Flying Bat Nebula and Squid Nebula

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I present you my last acquisition since the setup HAO_4. these are two nebulae including one (Ou4) discovered by my friend the French astrophotographer Nicolas Outters in June 2011. This is the Giant Squid (in blue/green in the image) which is a bipolar planetary nebula located about 2000 light-years from Earth surrounded by the Flying Bat Nebula (cataloged Sh2-129 in red), both are located in the direction of the cepheus constellation.
Technical details:
- Apo Takahashi FSQ 85 to F/D 5.3
- iOptron 60 cem ec mount
- Asi 2600 mm pro
- Astronomik filters 6nm
- 205x300s HA : 17 h 05 min
- 188x600s O3 : 31 h 20 min
-181x300s S2 : 15 h 05 min
- 3 x 30 x 60s RGB : 1 h 30 min
- Full integration: 49 h 55 min
- DOF: 33/101/25
- Date: October/november 2021
- Location: HAO Observatory, Oukaimeden, Morocco.

Copyright: K. Aziz

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2021, November 2021 Jason Matter 2021, November 2021 Jason Matter

The walking girl in space

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Barnard 150, also known as the Hippocampus Nebula, is a dark molecular cloud of dust in the constellation Cepheus located about 1,200 light years away.

This molecular cloud is part of our galaxy and it is one of 182 objects cataloged by astronomer Edward E. Barnard.On the right side of the image, we can see part of the squid nebula (OU4) (red signal).

Copyright: Thomas LELU

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