Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Puppis (Pup)  ·  Contains:  7 Pup)  ·  Asmidiske (ξ Pup  ·  NGC 2467  ·  NGC 2482  ·  The star 188 Pup  ·  The star Azmidi  ·  The star ο Pup
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Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband, David Elmore
Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband
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Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband

Revision title: - revised color table

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Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband, David Elmore
Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband
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Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband

Revision title: - revised color table

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Sharpless 2-311 about 17000 ly distant in Puppis.  Narrowband with H-alpha as red, Sulphur II as yellow, and Oxygen III as teal.

This is my first exercise in processing narrowband in PixInsight.  There is a lot to learn.

A consequence of the processing is the revealing of an object that I cannot find documented. It is the shell left of Sh2-311 that looks much like a slightly hidden Bubble Nebula.
Research by Dana Patchick has turned up a bright O6 star that could likely be the source of an intense stellar wind causing the shell.
Renaud Coppe has also seen this object in his imaging of this region.

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Sharpless 2-311 Skull and Crossbones in narrowband, David Elmore