Iris nebula
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A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and ionized gases. Nebulae are often star-forming regions, in where the formations of gas, dust and other materials clump together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become massive enough to form stars. The remaining materials are then believed to form planets, and other planetary system objects. ― source and more information wikipedia
Date: 2015-03-14 / 21:01:00 UTC
Location: Ekerö, Sweden
Temperature: 1 °C
Telescope: William-Optics Megrez 88FD
Camera: Canon 600D
ISO: 800
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Synscan
Exposure time: 84 X 120 sec
Reducer/flattener: William-Optics 0.8X reducer/flattener (P-FLAT-F6)
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Other info: Autoguided with 50mm guidescope and QHY5-II. Used PHD2 guiding software.
Processing: Stacked and darks-subtracted in DeepSkyStacker. Processed in Photoshop CS6.