Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  IC 2115  ·  IC 2116  ·  NGC 1760  ·  NGC 1761  ·  NGC 1763  ·  NGC 1769  ·  NGC 1773  ·  NGC 1776
NGC 1763 - the Bean Nebula in LMC, Jan Scheers
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NGC 1763 - the Bean Nebula in LMC

NGC 1763 - the Bean Nebula in LMC, Jan Scheers
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NGC 1763 - the Bean Nebula in LMC

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SHO-image of NGC 1763, an emission nebula with an embedded star cluster in the Dorado constellation in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160000 light-years from Earth.
NGC 1763, aka the Bean Nebula, is the bright (blue) nebula having a kidney bean shape located near the center of the image.

Other NGC-objects are also visible in this image: NGC 1760, NGC 1761, NGC 1769, NGC 1773...

This Hubble colour palette image (SHO) was captured with the Planewave CDK24 telescope and FLI PL9000 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total exposure time: 180 minutes; 6 subs of 600s with each filter (SHO).

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel V4.2, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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NGC 1763 - the Bean Nebula in LMC, Jan Scheers