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NGC 2170, Jan Scheers
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NGC 2170 or Angel Nebula is a dusty reflection nebula and stellar nursery that formed about 6 to 10 million years ago, located at the edge of the elliptically shaped, giant star-forming molecular cloud Monoceros R2 (Mon R2), some 2,700 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros.

In fact, NGC 2170 is just the blue nebula below the orange-red nebula in this image.
NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars.


This LRGB-image was captured with the ASA500N telescope and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total integration time: 240 minutes
LRGB 6 subs of 600s with each filter.
FOV 67' x 67' (0.98"/px)

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel V4.2, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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NGC 2170, Jan Scheers