80mm APO SXV-H9 LRGB = 240, 30 30 30min Mt Campbell Observatory This thin faint "Integrated Flux" nebulosity is in an otherwise blank area of the far southern skies and shines by reflecting the combined light, as well as from extended red emission, from the Milky Way stars as a whole! See the detailed negative version here: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/61217424/original Here is a more recent version with a bigger CCD: http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/113109010/original
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