Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1590  ·  NGC 281
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NGC-281, erdmanpe
NGC-281
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NGC-281

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NGC-281

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A nebula of interesting complexity at this plate scale. I used shorter (15min) exposures to avoid blooming of the bright central stars. The dark feature strikes me as a fissure in space, leading to who knows where, making it a somewhat forbidding object. DDP stretch and unsharp mask in Maxim.

Published in "Shrouds of the Night" by Block & Freeman

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NGC-281, erdmanpe