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LBN 471 - Wolf-Rayet Emission Nebula, Olly Barrett
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LBN 471 - Wolf-Rayet Emission Nebula

LBN 471 - Wolf-Rayet Emission Nebula, Olly Barrett
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LBN 471 - Wolf-Rayet Emission Nebula

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LBN471  is a rich Hii region with star clusters, very faint emission nebulae, and dark dust regions. Located in the southern portion of the constellation Cepheus and part of the Lion Nebula. It is roughly 10,000 to 12,000 light-years away, 220 light years in size and is in the Perseus arm of the MilkyWay Galaxy. 
Primarily an emission nebula with some massive stars responsible for ionizing the gas in this region. In particular, two Wolf-Rayet stars have been identified, with the designation HD 211564 and HD 211853. Wolf-Rayet stars are huge and hot and have a white-blue coloration. These stars are at least 20 times more massive than our Sun and can be hundreds of thousands or even millions of times brighter and they tend to be eruptive and possess extremely high solar winds.
The Lion Nebula lies at a degree southeast of Epsilon Cep, and has a size of about 40 arc minutes.

The image is a ground-up re-edit using a portion of the data I collected for my previous Sh2-132 image.
Since I’ve started using BlurXTerminator in Pixinsight I’ve found myself wanting to process deeper into the sub-frames as the, previously hidden, detail now needs it’s own standalone edits… 

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LBN 471 - Wolf-Rayet Emission Nebula, Olly Barrett