LBN438 and  PGC69439 in Lacerta, Dan_I

LBN438 and PGC69439 in Lacerta

LBN438 and  PGC69439 in Lacerta, Dan_I

LBN438 and PGC69439 in Lacerta

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When I was younger I was fascinated by the famous image  by David Malin of CG4 in Puppis, nicknamed God's Hand, a star-forming region in the shape of a hand which seems to be about to grab a distant galaxy. I realized some months ago that there is a strikingly similar nebula in the northern hemisphere, LBN 438 in Lacerta, accompanied by the distant galaxy PGC 69439. Of course it is a tough target from my Bortle 7 suburban backyard so I shot 11 hours of luminance to get an acceptable result.

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LBN438 and  PGC69439 in Lacerta, Dan_I