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    ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

    Dec 15, 2022 3 minutes

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    The Lion Nebula

    Daniel Hightower, Hardeeville, South Carolina, USA, 15-20 October 2022

    “I've always loved Ha regions that are filled with lots of Olll. It makes for such a dramatic image. The intense ionising gas in the Lion Nebula, including a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars, is just too exciting not to try and go deep with narrowband data. I went for 130-150 frames each at 300 seconds of Ha, Oll and Sll, which got me more than 34

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