Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  The star 69Ori
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Lower's Nebula Sh2-261, Jim Thommes
Lower's Nebula Sh2-261
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Lower's Nebula Sh2-261

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Lower's Nebula Sh2-261, Jim Thommes
Lower's Nebula Sh2-261
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Lower's Nebula Sh2-261

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This is an image of the emission nebula Sh2-261 (known popularly as Lower's Nebula and also known as LBN 863, SIM 34). Embedded within Sh2-261 is LBN 862 and LBN 864.  Also there are several dark nebulae in this field (Dobashi 4665, TGU H1364 P13, TGU H1364 P14) and one open cluster ([KPS2012] MWSC 0725).  These objects and some of the brighter stars are seen in the annotated image.  The horizontal FOV is approximately 120'. Image scale of the full size image is 2.4 arcsec/pix.

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