Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)
an eel  in space, Wei Li
an eel  in space
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an eel in space

an eel  in space, Wei Li
an eel  in space
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an eel in space

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LDN 1217 is a Bok globule in constellation Cepheus, a dust condense region to form protostars. Its shape looks like a long worm,  that gets it a nickname: eel.  In the background, it has HA signal emitted out. On the end, a blue reflection nebula lights up its head and a star makes its eye. I shot LRGB back in July and did my first round of post process, I didn't like it. Then I decided to shoot and add some ha signal.  That made this image much better with vivid red popping up.

Subs:
ha: 16x1800s
L: 40x600s
RGB(2x2): 15x300s each

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