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Sampan Hat Nebula Sh2-224 aka Supernova Remnant SNR 166.0 +4.3, Mau_Bard
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Sampan Hat Nebula Sh2-224 aka Supernova Remnant SNR 166.0 +4.3

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Sampan Hat Nebula Sh2-224 aka Supernova Remnant SNR 166.0 +4.3, Mau_Bard
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Sampan Hat Nebula Sh2-224 aka Supernova Remnant SNR 166.0 +4.3

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The image was taken during the nights of 24, 27 December 2022, 10 January 2023 and finally 6 , 7 February 2023, in rare windows of "clean" Bortle 7-8 sky, in this incredibly cloudy/foggy winter in Vienna.
Global warming, light and air pollution and satellites are conspiring against we poor amateur astronomers.
It makes an impression to think that Charles Messier was performing his observations at the end of the 18th century from the very center of Paris, at that time probably a Bortle 2-3 location!

In the lower right corner of the image is visible a little portion of Sh2-223.

Sampan Hat
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Picture: A straw cone hat worn by a Japanese Buddhist monk (From Wikipedia. Original is by User: Marubatsu)

Sh2-224 Supernova Remnant
Galactic Coordinates: (166.12°, 4.19°)

This is the supernova remnant SNR 166.0 +4.3 or VRO 42.01.01, which is visible at hydrogen-alpha, x-rays and radio frequencies.

The object has an unusual shape, with a shell structure with a radius of about 25 parsecs, and is in interaction with a cavity of the interstellar medium at a higher temperature than the surrounding environment, located in the southwestern part and shaped like a bow; this conformation suggests that the supernova remnant heading southwest came into contact with the cavity, first deforming and interacting with this structure, then expanding within it and creating a larger propagation wave that emerged from the side opposite, thus creating the arched structure visible in the westernmost part, i.e. beyond the cavity.

The distance of the structure is estimated at 4500 pc (14.7 k light-years) from the solar system, in an outlying region of the Perseus Arm . Through the X-ray study (1), an age of the structure between 13 and 24 kyear was determined, although and older evaluation was 81 kyear.
(excerpts from Wikipedia Italian entry and galaxymap.org)

Bibliographic reference, worth to have a look
(1) Burrows, David N. & Guo, Zhiyu (1994). "ROSAT observations of VRO 42.05.01", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 421, L19-L22. https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1994ApJ...421L..19B

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