MW2-Angel Nebula IFN Widefield (looks more like a dragonfly caught in a spiderweb!) (Scott Denning)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: Coddington's Nebula · IC 2574

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MW2-Angel Nebula IFN Widefield (looks more like a dragonfly caught in a spiderweb!)

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MW2-Angel Nebula IFN Widefield (looks more like a dragonfly caught in a spiderweb!)

This is a very wide field of Integrated Flux Nebula and hundreds of background galaxies near the North Celestial Pole.

The nebula is catalogued as Mandel-Wilson 2, the "Angel Nebula." I can see a very abstract angel in the center, but to me it looks more like a dragonfly caught in a spiderweb. The material floats well above the plane of our galaxy at DEC=73 N. The dust is illuminated not by a nearby star but rather by the integrated light of billions of stars in the Milky Way disk below. This field is 10 degrees wide and encompasses parts of the constellations Camelopardalis and Draco.

I love the way these cold dusty molecular clouds collapse into filaments under the influence of gravity.

This is 543 x 180s exposures (27 hours) at f/2.8 captured with a Rokinon/Samyang 135 mm camera lens on a ZWO ASI 2600 mc pro over 5 nights in March under a Bortle 5 suburban sky. The 135 lens is real photon hoover, which is a good thing because the IFN is ridiculously faint. I drizzled the whole thing and processed at 2x = 3 arcsec/pixel before scaling it back down to 1x for uploading here. The 2x image is a 1.2 GB xisf file, so this 8 MB jpg is compressed 155x compared to the file on my computer!

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