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Sh-129 region

Sh2-129 "The Flying Bat" and "The Giant Squid" Nebulae.
This is a wide image of 4X3.5 Degrees of the sky.
Sh-129 is the large Hydrogen red cloud (2.5 Degrees - 5 full moons...)
The Squid nebula (also refered as Outters 4) is the Greenish Oxygen nebula that lies in front of the Red Hydrogen cloud.

At lower right - the dark nebula Barnard 150 (The Lizard...)

This is a composite image of 2 telescopes:
The whole wide image was taken with TAK FSQ 106 @ F3.5
The Squid was imaged with a 10" ASA telescope @ F2.8

TAK FSQ:
Ha - 14 hrs @ Bin 1
RGB - for the stars - 30 min each @ Bin2

ASA 10":
O3 - 12 Hrs (Bin2)

Total about 28 HRS

ASA DDM 60 mount (NO guiding...)

Moravian G3 16200 camera
Baader filters

Imaged from my home in Gan-Yavne, ISRAEL

Moravian Instruments,G3-16200
full exif

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