Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  B232  ·  B44a  ·  B48  ·  Grafias  ·  IC 4628  ·  IC 4637  ·  NGC 6231  ·  NGC 6242  ·  NGC 6268  ·  NGC 6281  ·  PK342+00.1  ·  PK343+03.1  ·  PK343-00.1  ·  PK344+00.1  ·  PK344+02.1  ·  PK344+03.1  ·  PK344-01.1  ·  PK345+00.1  ·  PK345+03.1  ·  PK345+03.2  ·  PK345+04.1  ·  PK345-00.1  ·  PK345-01.1  ·  PK347+01.1  ·  Part of the constellation Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Scorpius  ·  Sh2-2  ·  The star ζ1Sco  ·  The star ζ2Sco  ·  The star μ1Sco  ·  And 5 more.
Prawn Nebula (IC 4628), Jan Scheers
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Prawn Nebula (IC 4628)

Prawn Nebula (IC 4628), Jan Scheers
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Prawn Nebula (IC 4628)

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Hubble colour palette image of the Prawn Nebula, also known as IC 4628, an emission nebula located in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, around 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.
It forms part of the tail of the "False Comet" anchored by the bright open cluster NGC 6231.

This SHO-image was captured with the Officina Stellare RH200 telescope and FLI ML16200 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.
Total exposure time 120 minutes.
SHO 3:5:4 subframes of 600s with each narrowband filter (SII, Ha and OIII). Dataset Scotty Bishop

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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Prawn Nebula (IC 4628), Jan Scheers