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Sh2-282, Sh2-283 and Sh2-284, Göran Nilsson
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Sh2-282, Sh2-283 and Sh2-284

Sh2-282, Sh2-283 and Sh2-284, Göran Nilsson
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Sh2-282, Sh2-283 and Sh2-284

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These objects from the Sharpless catalogue, just south of the Rosette, are a bit low on my southern horizon, but this is at least the best time of the year to give it a shot. They are also surprisingly rarely imaged.

NGC 2282 (aka IC 2172 and vdB 85) is a rather complex object,  classified both as a star cluster, reflection nebula and Ha region. (at least one paper has been written about it https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1997AJ....113.1788H). When I noted the red Ha emitting "ball" just above Sh2-284 I was thinking planetary nebula, but it is only classified as a Ha region in Simbad, and it is not in the HASH data base of PNs and PN candidates,.

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