Thursday night was the local astronomy club meetup in the field. While we were chatting and doing visual astronomy, my astrophotography rig captured the data that I later processed into this image.

This is Sh2-132 (from the Sharpless catalogue), an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus sometimes referred to as the Lion Nebula. Its glowing gases are ionized by very hot and massive stars, including two Wolf-Rayet stars and one class O star.

Full resolution + annotated versions and technical details on Telescopius: https://telescopius.com/pictures/view/163242/deep_sky/NGC/7226/open-cluster/by-drgfreeman

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

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