Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  The star 12Tau  ·  The star 24Eri  ·  The star 29Tau  ·  The star 35Eri  ·  The star 40Tau  ·  The star 46Tau  ·  The star 47Tau  ·  The star 66Tau  ·  The star μTau  ·  The star νTau
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Sh-245, erdmanpe
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Sh-245

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Sh-245

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The beautiful, giant, haunting filaments of the eastern wall of the even more enormous Eridanus Loop structure. It seems to embody an artistic concept of visual celestial strings (not to be confused with string theory). This is a two panel mosaic (field of view ~11x13 degrees) in an attempt to capture a small part of what Sh2-245 itself composes. It is "bright" enough against its background that only a gamma stretch was applied in Maxim. While nicely visible in a positive image, I will also generate another image in the negative with the same data, because of that presentation's unique visual perspective.

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Sh-245, erdmanpe