M17 Omega Nebula

M17 by David Trotter

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August 12, 2016 at 1:27 pm

David Trotter

Sydney, Australia

SBIG STL6303e, AP900 mount captured using Maxim DL and processed in PixInsight

M17, also known as the Swan Nebula, in Sagittarious and very active in terms of star forming.
Shot in LRGB from my back yard in Sydney

2016-07-15T00:00:00

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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

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