Skull and Cross Bones Nebula (NGC2467) - Wide field (DoubleStarPhotography)

Skull and Cross Bones Nebula (NGC2467) - Wide field

The Skull and Crossbones Nebula aka NGC 2467, is a star-forming region whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of the classic skull and cross bones imagery or a colorful mandrill. It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas are incubating and forming new stars.

NGC 2467 had long been considered to be the nucleus of the Puppis I association. However, NGC 2467 does not represent a distinct open cluster, rather, it represents a superimposition of several stellar groups along the same approximate line of sight that have distinctly different distances and distinctly different radial velocities.=10.5px One of these is a young and very distant group beyond Puppis OB2, while another, nearer group with later-type stars lies at a similar distance as Puppis OB1. - Source Wikapedia

Imaging note: This is my deepest foray into the southern sky (-26 degrees) to date from my location here in Maryland at 39deg North latitude, with this object only reaching ~20 degrees above the southern horizon at it's max from my location which places it deep into the light dome from the nearby Washington DC metro area.

That being said, I had low expections for how this shot might turn out, but was pleasantly wrong!! After see the result and what a wonderfully diverse nebula this object is I'll be returning to this target again for a much deeper dive in the future!

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Backyard
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Mix of multiple sources
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RA (center)	07h53m06s.10
RA (top/left)	08h01m15s.14
RA (top/right)	07h44m59s.21
RA (bottom/right)	07h44m47s.59
RA (bottom/left)	08h01m20s.95

Dec (center)	-26°23′46″.9
Dec (top/left)	-25°24′06″.10
Dec (top/right)	-25°22′46″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	-27°21′45″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-27°23′11″.1

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