Did you know there were sharks in space? 🦈

This is the Dark Shark Nebula, LDN 1235 from Lynds Dark Nebula catalogue, in the constellation of Cepheus. It is a large cloud of interstellar dust that reflects the light of surrounding stars.

I captured this image Tuesday night from La Mauricie National Park (QC, 🇨🇦) where the low light pollution (Bortle 3) allows capturing this very dim object in a reasonable amount of time.

High resolution, annotated versions and technical details on Telescopius: https://telescopius.com/pictures/view/160334/deep_sky/Cr/471/open-cluster/by-drgfreeman

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Image license: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

There are 5 galaxies visible in the image, can you spot them? Two are easy, three are more difficult.

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