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SNR G82-2+5.3 The Cygnus Shell supernova remnant (W63), Mathieu Guinot
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SNR G82-2+5.3 The Cygnus Shell supernova remnant (W63)

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SNR G82-2+5.3 The Cygnus Shell supernova remnant (W63), Mathieu Guinot
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SNR G82-2+5.3 The Cygnus Shell supernova remnant (W63)

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The ghost of a long-dead star, the W63 supernova remnant shines like a faint cosmic smoke-ring along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy toward the northern constellation Cygnus the swan, about 5000 light-years away. It is a beautiful elliptical SNR not so far from the more famous Cygnus loop SNR. It spans over 95x65' and is quite weak.

I decided for my first light with the little Taka FS60  to go deep into this one and it took quite a while to get enough SNR to bring the fainter areas of Oiii. I chose an HOO-RGB rendition instead of the most popular SHO renditions of this SNR.

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SNR G82-2+5.3 The Cygnus Shell supernova remnant (W63), Mathieu Guinot