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Old 04-05-2008, 10:34 PM
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Leon the nebulae in this region are very faint and need a lot of exposure through narrow band filters to minimise noise and skyglow. I am surprised you did as well as you did.

Here is a very good image of this area by Rob Gendler.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080306.html


Below is your image and the same area exised from Robs image with Registar.

Bert
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