From GalaxyMap:
Sh 2-269 lies in front of a 8700 solar mass giant molecular cloud in the Cygnus (outer) arm. It is bisected by a dust lane and is ionised by two stars in the western side of the nebula. One is a B0.5 V star (MFJ Sh 2-269 2), the other is visible only in the infrared and appears to be either O8 or O9.5.
GENERAL NOTE ON SHARPLESS2 OBJECTS>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I have been on a project for several years now to image all the Sharpless2 Objects that I can see from my location near San Francisco. I chose these because they are visible in light polluted areas. These objects generally represent left over Hydrogen along the edge of the Milky Way that has gotten molded into interesting shapes.
There are 313 Sh2 objects and those below 70 and above 283 are generally too low on the horizon for me to image... this leaves me 213 that are feasible... and I have imaged all of these but 19. 13 of these are too big for my system. So 6 to go: (226, 228, 262, 278, 279 and 282).
Many were taken with my old Tak 180 ED, which had a wide field of view, but was replaced with my Stellarvue 130, which is more narrow field.
This is my collection:
Sharpless2Please note there is also a Sharpless2 Group with now more than 1000 examples.
Hope you enjoy these obscure but interesting objects...
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