The Angel Nebula (Richard Francis)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: HD41608 · HD41794 · HD42003 · HD42004 · HD42051 · HD42115 · HD42132 · HD42261 · HD42279 · HD42338 · LBN 993 · LBN 994 · LBN 995 · LBN 998 · LBN 999 · LDN 1646 · NGC 2170 · NGC 2182 · VdB69

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The Angel Nebula

This region is an open star cluster in its formative years. Here we find red glowing regions where stars are being born, dull red regions of hydrogen emitting its characteristic red glow and blue reflection nebulae, where light is being scattered from fine particles, like sunlight is scattered by air molecules in the sky. We also see dark streaks, which are areas of dust which absorbs the light from the brighter objects behind.

Over time the gas and diust will be swept away from the new stars being formed here, and what remains will be an open star cluster.

This region is thought to be about 2400 light years away. It was discovered on 16 Oct 1784 by William Herschel, who entered the central part here in his New General Catalog: NGC 2170.

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Description: For almost 2 years I've been suffering from increasing pacification of my lens implants - the result was a great loss of contrast and saturation. After I've now had them replaced I'm astonished at how overblown my processed images have been -- they looked OK with my dodgy eyes! This is a, hopefully, improved version.

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RA (center)	06h08m05s.181
RA (top/left)	06h10m09s.223
RA (top/right)	06h05m59s.999
RA (bottom/right)	06h06m00s.942
RA (bottom/left)	06h10m10s.663

Dec (center)	-06°22′08″.19
Dec (top/left)	-05°51′19″.45
Dec (top/right)	-05°51′37″.87
Dec (bottom/right)	-06°52′54″.43
Dec (bottom/left)	-06°52′37″.85

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