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The Cygnus Loop - Sharpless 103 in LRGB, David Payne
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The Cygnus Loop - Sharpless 103 in LRGB

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The Cygnus Loop - Sharpless 103 in LRGB, David Payne
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The Cygnus Loop - Sharpless 103 in LRGB

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Taken using LRGB filters, this wide field view of the Cynus Loop display the rich, multi-coloured, star-field in this part of the sky.    Unfortunately, there are so many stars, that the structure nebulosity of the Loop, which is a super-nova remnant, is largely obscured.   There seems to be three distinct areas of nebulosity in this image, but I wondered how these three areas related to a super-nova from a single, now neutron, star.

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The Cygnus Loop - Sharpless 103 in LRGB, David Payne