SH2-261 LOWERS NEBULA

[CELESCOPE]

Another target we dont see much off and right on our doorstep , this is placed the top side of Orion , and to the left, a very faint nebula , took a lot of subs again , 60 x 60 secs HA filter used , processed in Maxim using a mild DDP process , hope u like this one , i have a few more of these little devils to seek out yet ,

Rog

The Sh2-261 (Sharpless 261), also known as the Lower's Nebula, is a faint region of doubly ionized hydrogen. Its apparent dimension is about 50 arcminutes in East-West direction and 30 arcminutes in North-South. So, it has an apparent size about twice the full Moon diameter. Of course the real size of the nebula is much larger! But we have no information about the distance of this hydrogen cloud, so we are not able to determine how large it is.

[Saso]

Another great image of for me unknown object. Where do you find all this? Thank you for all additional informations. Keep going.

[Astroman]

I haven't seen this one either, but it's about 2º north of Ngc 2169, the "37" cluster mentioned elsewhere.

[geppetto]

Wonderful image again Rog 8)

That really is a faint one :shock:

[MartinB]

Nicely done Rog. There's a lot of ionised hydrogen up there.