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LION NEBULA

The Lion Nebula, or Sharpless 132, is a very faint emission-type nebula on the Cepheus/Lacerta border, containing two Wolf-Rayet stars. It lies some 10000 light years away in the Perseus Arm of our Milky Way.

Technical info:
TS 80mm f6 APO triplet refractor
ZWO ASI 071 MC PRO - temp: -10c - gain 150
Optolong L-eNhance dualband filter ( Ha-OIII)
Celestron AVX mount

Exposure - 75x 360sec - ~ 7.5 hours

Processed with Astro Pixel Processor - PS CS5

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