Eating Spaghetti with chop sticks 😂 (John Favalessa)

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Imaging the Spaghetti Nebula, SH2-240, from bortle 7 is like trying to eating Spaghetti with chop sticks, 😂 but I had to try (...as I'm actually pretty good with chop sticks 🥢and prefer them to forks )

This beautiful and amazing supernova nebula is faint faint faint and large large large...about the size of 6 full moons (a diameter of almost 3 degrees). This was a self forced challenge...as it's been cloudy/windy on most new moons for months no traveling to dark sites. Had one clear night this week, but now cloudy/rainy is coming to So Cal. So much for travels to the desert. The pairing of the ASKAR300 and the full frame camera framed the entire nebula nicely...I was happily shocked when I saw the first sub. I integrated at 1.3 drizzle hence the good pixel scale. The Ha came in nicely but the Oiii was a bitch kiddy to capture as so faint and only on the outside edges. I deliberately did not search Astrobin to see what's achievable as I knew I'd be pushing it from these light polluted skies (even worse lately as the house above me lit up his trees with LED lights...you wouldn't believe how bright they are. I'm planning to build a light baffle.) All and all I exceeded my expectations with this capture.

The Spaghetti Nebula is at a distance of around 3,000 light-years. The star that created this nebula went supernova approximately 40,000 years ago.

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RA (center)	05h41m00s.19
RA (top/left)	05h25m20s.20
RA (top/right)	05h55m35s.31
RA (bottom/right)	05h57m17s.54
RA (bottom/left)	05h25m44s.77

Dec (center)	+28°06′36″.1
Dec (top/left)	+25°59′15″.2
Dec (top/right)	+25°38′27″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+30°07′37″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°28′47″.2

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