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SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula, Neal Weston
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SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula

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SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula

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The Tulip Nebula narrowband in the popular blue/gold palette. Taken with a newly acquired ASKAR FRA 400 72mm refractor.
I wanted to capture the bow shock from the Cygnus X-1 black hole and this became something of an obsession - It's very faint and I took more OIII frames than I normally would battling poor weather along the way. As a result this image has taken a lot longer than usual to complete.
I think it worked out ok in the end though - there's an annotated version if you're not familiar with this object.

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Title: Annotated

Description: Annotated with Cygnus X-1 and the bow shock.

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SH2-101 The Tulip Nebula, Neal Weston