Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7013
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NGC7013, molecular clouds and a tiny galaxy designated PGC 1881063 on the right edge of ngc7013, Daniel Eldström
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NGC7013, molecular clouds and a tiny galaxy designated PGC 1881063 on the right edge of ngc7013

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NGC7013, molecular clouds and a tiny galaxy designated PGC 1881063 on the right edge of ngc7013, Daniel Eldström
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NGC7013, molecular clouds and a tiny galaxy designated PGC 1881063 on the right edge of ngc7013

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In hindsight i should have gone to darker skies and also used my pure UV/IR filter but i captured around 7 hours of data in broadband and then another hour in dual band since the core of the galaxy has ha signal in it. Processingwise i started on this image so many times and failed to get a good background. In this version i failed also but decided to crop it and in that also removing two smaller galaxies that sits higher up in this kind of framing. This is my first time imaging a molecular cloud as primary target, the galaxy feels kind of like it just joined in ;). In my mind this looks like a smoke monster chasing the galaxy to eat it up.

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NGC7013, molecular clouds and a tiny galaxy designated PGC 1881063 on the right edge of ngc7013, Daniel Eldström