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The Snake Nebula image

The Snake Nebula


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The Snake Nebula is a dark nebula in Ophiuchus. It is a small S-shaped dust lane that snakes out in front of the Milky Way star clouds. 8/2/2008 Anza, CA 3 times 10 minutes each LRGB at -5 degrees. 2 hours total. TOA-130 with reducer. NJP mount. ST-10XE and CFW-10. Guided with an Orion short-tube 80 and Orion StarShoot Autoguider. Seeing and transparency degraded over the evening.