Sharpless 63

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Sharpless 63

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Sharpless 63 (LBN 86, MBM 158 and 159 and others) is a high latitude molecular cloud (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gate ... 2M/ADS_PDF) located approximately 700 light-years away in Sagittarius. While classified as a HII region in Simbad, this one appears to just be dust.

Luminance – 5x600s – 50 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 5x600s – 50 minutes each – binned 1x1

200 minutes total exposure – 3 hour 20 minutes

Imaged August 3rd, 2021 at the Heaven’s Mirror Observatory (Australia) with a FLI ML16200 on an Officina Stellare RH200 .

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 2/sizes/l/

This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”

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