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Fossil Footprint Nebula, NGC 1491, mhtandy
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Fossil Footprint Nebula, NGC 1491

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Fossil Footprint Nebula, NGC 1491

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This is an object I knew nothing about until a few days ago, when I was searching for something new to image. The Fossil Footprint Nebula, it's an HII-ionized region in Perseus, about 10,700 ly from Earth.

It wasn't the best setup for imaging - an almost full moon and some high, thin clouds that passed over intermittently. Despite that, it turned out better than I expected.

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Fossil Footprint Nebula, NGC 1491, mhtandy