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Crescent Nebula, Ed Albin
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Crescent Nebula

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Here's an odd emission nebula, called the "Crescent Nebula" found within the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. I took this image over a two hour time period with my C14 telescope / ASI071 camera combo Wednesday evening. Found about 5,000 light from Earth, this crescent shaped cloud of dusty gas was produced by stellar winds blowing from the central star, an ancient dying sun astronomers call a Wolf-Rayet star.

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Crescent Nebula, Ed Albin

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