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Cederblad 51 and surroundings, James E.
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Cederblad 51 and surroundings

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Cederblad (Ced) 51 is a blue reflection nebula about 1400 light years distant in Orion.  It is one of 215 nebula listed in Sven Cederblad's "Catalog of bright diffuse Galactic nebulae" published in 1946 - with a goal of investigating the spatial distribution and geometric properties of bright diffuse nebulae within the Milky Way.  Ced 51 is embedded in the northern border of the large molecular cloud and HII region known as the Lambda Orionis Ring (Sharpless 264, at the "head" of Orion).

Imaged over several nights:  Nov 19, 23-24; Dec 4, 8, 11-12, 2023.

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