Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  LBN 862  ·  LBN 863  ·  LBN 864  ·  LDN 1587  ·  Sh2-261
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Lower’s nebula in SHO dynamic palette, Francesco Meschia
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Lower’s nebula in SHO dynamic palette

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Lower’s nebula in SHO dynamic palette, Francesco Meschia
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Lower’s nebula in SHO dynamic palette

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Sharpless 2-261, also known as Lower’s nebula after its discoverers, is found halfway along Orion’s “raised arm”. For this image I integrated almost twenty-one hours of narrowband data, which I then processed using a dynamic palette inspired by thecoldestnights.com. Additionally, I used 30 minutes of RGB data to give realistic colors to the stars.

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