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Skull Nebula, KiwiAstro
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Skull Nebula

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Skull Nebula

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The Skull Nebula is a 10.9 magnitude planetary nebula with a bright disk that gives the impression of transparency - 1600 LY. Can definitely see the Ha and O3 aspects with the help of the UHC filter. There are a couple of galaxies in the left part of the image at 70+ M LY.

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Skull Nebula, KiwiAstro

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