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Lower's nebula in Orion, Anders Johannesson
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Lower's nebula in Orion

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Lower's nebula in Orion, Anders Johannesson
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Lower's nebula in Orion

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There are quite a few interesting HII regions at the border between Orion and Gemini; the Monkeyhead, The Jellyfish, this one, Lower's nebula etc. This little nebula was discovered in 1939 by father and son Lower, and thus the  name. Distance from Earth is about 3000 ly.

My HHO image is based on about 6 hours of data from Earlier this year. Most images are from around March 18,  2022. The signal in Oxygen light is not very strong so it was a bit of a challenge. I probably pushed the processing a bit too much for the SNR that I got, but I like it anyway.

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