Witchhead Nebula (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Eridanus (Eri) · Contains: 65 Eri) · 65 psi Eri · IC 2118 · LBN 959 · NGC 1752 · NGC 1797 · NGC 1799 · NGC 1909 · PGC 1023022 · PGC 1025093 · PGC 1026456 · PGC 1026633 · PGC 1029803 · PGC 1031174 · PGC 1032523 · PGC 1033231 · PGC 1033911 · PGC 1034111 · PGC 1034437 · PGC 1034594 · PGC 1034755 · PGC 1034906 · PGC 1035429 · PGC 1036079 · PGC 1038735 · PGC 1039844 · PGC 1039971 · PGC 16607 · PGC 16669 · PGC 3080765 · And 13 more.

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Finally had another clear night (Christmas Eve) to finish this target which I started last week. I have just under 9 hours on this very faint reflection nebula. I captured this about a year ago with my 294 MC, but this time I noticed a couple of galaxies at the top of the image. In doing a little research, NGC 1752 is about 147 million light years away, PGC 16607 just to the right of it is a 163 million light years away and PGC 16609 farther to the right is 489 million mile away (that is a distant galaxy, so cool that it can be captured with a little 81mm scope). wow the plate solve finally finished and look at all those galaxies, pretty cool. I do not remember seeing those in my image last year.

IC 2118 is an interstellar cloud of fine dust grains that is illuminated by supergaint Rigel and is about 900 light years away. It get it blue color from Rigel and that the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red.

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RA (center)	05h04m55s.24
RA (top/left)	04h59m52s.92
RA (top/right)	05h06m57s.56
RA (bottom/right)	05h09m56s.18
RA (bottom/left)	05h02m53s.81

Dec (center)	-07°13′57″.0
Dec (top/left)	-08°17′47″.7
Dec (top/right)	-08°47′35″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	-06°09′54″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°40′15″.6

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