Sh2-63 and Barnard's Galaxy in a cobweb of Galactic Cirrus. (Shikhar Gupta)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 1 Cap · 2 Cap · 5 Cap) · 54 Sgr · 55 Sgr · 61 Sgr · Barnard's Galaxy · NGC 6822 · The star 3 Cap · The star 63 Sgr · The star 65 Sgr · The star Prima Giedi (α1 Cap · The star e1 Sgr · The star e2 Sgr · The star g Sgr · The star ξ Cap · The star ξ1 Cap · ξ2 Cap

Sh2-63 and Barnard's Galaxy in a cobweb of Galactic Cirrus., Shikhar Gupta

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Galactic Cirrus clouds are veils that surround our own galaxy – made of dust and gas in the interstellar space. It was first noticed on optical glass plates recorded at Palomar Observatory and subsequently cataloged by B. T. Lynds, in 1965. In the 2000s, Steve Mandel noticed faint cirrus in deep, wide field photographs near the North Celestial Pole, and labelled the nebulosity as the IFN, or the Integrated Flux Nebula. This dust however is not only strongly present at the North Celestial Pole, and the term IFN might be used to describe the cirrus in other parts of the sky. In this particular image, the region is filled with this nebulosity, whose details are rarely imaged.
This image contains the galactic cirrus surrounding the two relatively more commonly images objects - Sh2-63 near the centre of the image and the barred irrregular galaxy commonly known as Barnard's Galaxy (NGC 6822).

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