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Lower's Nebula & Co (from Sh2-254 to Sh2-261), Göran Nilsson
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Lower's Nebula & Co (from Sh2-254 to Sh2-261)

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Lower's Nebula & Co (from Sh2-254 to Sh2-261), Göran Nilsson
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Lower's Nebula & Co (from Sh2-254 to Sh2-261)

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The moon is up so I went for some fairly bright nebula. This is the first time I have imaged Lower's Nebula (Sh2-261), which is named after its discoverers: amateur astronomers Harold Lower and his son Charles, who spotted it in 1939. The wide field of view of the RASA allowed me to also include a conglomerate of Sharpless objects (Sh2-154 to 259) in the upper right corner.

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