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The great cosmic curtain, Pranay Kanwar
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The great cosmic curtain

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The great cosmic curtain

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The great Lacerta nebula, a.k.a SH2-126, large emission nebula in the constellation of Lacerta (Latin for Lizard)  ~1200 ly away. A faint target but glows in hydrogen alpha excited from star 10 Lacerta an O type star. In this framing, it looks like a large curtain about to fall and reveal something.

HaLRGB 13h 10m LRGB 3x10x180s, 4x10x600s, Ha 30x600s with H alpha added to red channel, from SPA-1 telescope a Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 with FLI PL16083  camera and Astrodon filters situated at IC Astronomy Observatory, Spain. Part of telescope.live telescope network. Taken on multiple dates from June-July 2022.

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The great cosmic curtain, Pranay Kanwar