Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  The star ο1CMa
SH2-308 Dolphin Head Nebula, Aaron Tragle
SH2-308 Dolphin Head Nebula
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SH2-308 Dolphin Head Nebula

SH2-308 Dolphin Head Nebula, Aaron Tragle
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SH2-308 Dolphin Head Nebula

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I originally started this project way back on Haloween, I did **not** expect me to be processing it in March 4 months after starting! When I started I originally thought that the OIII signal was faint, but boy was I wrong. I had to collect the 4 hours of Ha data at a Bortle 2 site for it even to make a difference. I am currently building two telescopes, one of them a 6" F3 Newtonian that should help me capture these fainter regions when I head to college in the summer where the light pollution is much more considerable. I hope that I will revisit this target to gather more data with the F3 due to its sheer light-gathering ability.

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SH2-308 Dolphin Head Nebula, Aaron Tragle