Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  17 Cam  ·  19 Cam  ·  The star 17Cam
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Predator-Prey Nebula - a 5 panel RASA mosaic, Göran Nilsson
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Predator-Prey Nebula - a 5 panel RASA mosaic

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Predator-Prey Nebula - a 5 panel RASA mosaic, Göran Nilsson
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Predator-Prey Nebula - a 5 panel RASA mosaic

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My final backyard image for the season is this five panel mosaic of Integrated Flux Nebulosity (IFN) one hour west of the Fish Hook Nebula (Mandel-Wilson 5). The structures have no names but do occur in Lynd's Catalogue of Bright Nebulae as "barely detectable", so the most faint ones. I decided to call them The Predator-Prey Nebula. The prey (LBN 690) is that frightened looking central structure and the predator is the staghorn beetle like stucture coming up from lower right (LBN 699-700). Apart from being faintly visible on Aladin Sky Atlas (DSS red data) I have not seen any images of these very faint but gigant structures (about 60 moons would fit into this 6° wide image) in the outskirts of our galaxy, primarily lit up by the collective radiation from the galaxy.

The image has been downsampled from 10670 x 7931 pixels.

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