Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  B258  ·  NGC 6357  ·  PK352+00.1  ·  Sh2-11  ·  the War and Peace Nebula
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NGC 6357 War and Peace Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome
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NGC 6357 War and Peace Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB

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NGC 6357 War and Peace Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome
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NGC 6357 War and Peace Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB

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This shot, though not my best, was a test of what can be achieved from shooting a low object (this one transits the meridian 22 degrees above my horizon), through the horrible Bortle 9 light dome of Phoenix, Arizona.  Thankfully, the emission from NGC 6357 is quite bright and can be isolated with narrowband filters.  Here, I combined data obtained through my Optolong L-eXtreme dual narrowband filter with unfiltered RGB data for natural star colors.  Not bad for a city shot.

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NGC 6357 War and Peace Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome