Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)
Sh2-132 - The Lion Nebula, kuechlew
Sh2-132 - The Lion Nebula
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Sh2-132 - The Lion Nebula

Sh2-132 - The Lion Nebula, kuechlew
Sh2-132 - The Lion Nebula
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Sh2-132 - The Lion Nebula

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Yesterday I finally had a clear night to capture some own data. The session turned out to be horrible with plenty of technical issues with my rig and clouds leaving later and rolling in earlier than predicted. So instead of the planned 8 hours I only managed to capture 5 hours. I had to ditch more than 1 hour worth of frames due to bad stars. In the end I'm still happy with the result but the faint lion nebula certainly deserves some more integration time. I like the two dark nebulae beneath the lion, although they suffered a bit from the waxing moon.

As usual the wonderful PixInsight GHS script of https://ghsastro.co.uk proved very helpful for stretching the image.

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