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Dryer's Nebula - IC 2169, Phil Hoppes
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Dryer's Nebula - IC 2169

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Dryer's Nebula - IC 2169

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The weather in Phoenix has been surprising me this past week.  A week ago the outlook was for cloudy nights for over a week.  It has evolved into something much better as I've been able to image on quite a few evenings now.  In searching for targets, my searching inside Stellarium came up with this object.  I'd not seen nor heard of this object before but it is quite fascinating.  In my FOV on this shot we have reflection nebula's that are blue in color along with some visible dark lanes in the background.  This is clearly a nice target to come back and image with one of my good mono cameras and a full LRGBSHO filter set.  There is a lot going on and I'd like to come back and get more details on the dark lanes as well as the reflection nebula itself.

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Dryer's Nebula - IC 2169, Phil Hoppes