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Pacman deep and dusty, Göran Nilsson
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Pacman deep and dusty

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Pacman deep and dusty, Göran Nilsson
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Pacman deep and dusty

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I usually try to aim for something rarely imaged but the moon is out so I aimed at something very bright, but at the same time it has to be something very common and popular. It became the Pacman Nebula. I had to use the NBZ filter to suppress the Moon's influence. What struck me when I started processing the image was how much dust there was around. I did not expect that from other images I have seen of it. In all the dust the small reflection nebula LBN 1299 down in the right corner stood out a bit. Not many dusty images like this seem to exist of this area, so the dust-sucking RASA did it again.

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