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Old 04-12-2017, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by astroron View Post
Very nice image Andrew
Do you know you can just spot Supernova 1987A as a pinkish star
below and to the right of NGC2044.
The small dark nebula with 3 stars in it below NGC2044, go straight down from it till you come too a small group of stars the pink one is SN1987A
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Hi Ron - thanks for pointing it out! I did, I also snagged it in my 10" last year as well, but since this is a narrowband SHO image, it's the bright green star in the middle of the cropped image!
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