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Sharpless	Instrument	Exposure	Camera	Filters
SH2-273	Epsilon 160 F/3.3	5 Hours 30 Minutes	STL-6303 XE	H-Alpha, RGB

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Sharpless	Instrument	Exposure	Camera	Filters
SH2-273	MakNewt 8 inch F/4	27 Hours	QSI 583 WSG	H-Alpha, RGB

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Sharpless	Instrument	Exposure	Camera	Filters
SH2-273	MakNewt 8 inch F/4	15 Hours	QSI 583	H-ALpha

Sharpless	SH2-273
Common Name	Cone Nebula
Constellation	Monoceros
RA	6h 38m
DEC	9d 57m
Size	250
Shape	Irregular
Brightness	Bright
Object Type	Diffuse Nebula
Type	Emission
Other Catalog #	LBN 911

Most imagers mainly aim their telescopes to the Cone Nebula, which is a small part of SH2-273. There is also a nice reflection nebula near the cone which appears to the right of it in the color image. Two of the wider field of view color images also display the Hubble Variable Nebula on the left side of the image. This nebula picks up nice detail using a Hydrogen-Alpha filter, but you will hide the refection part seen in the middle unless you process the image in such a way so as to preserve it. The nebula expands more than seen here, so if you have about a 4 degree field of view, you should get it all in a single image. However, what you see here is most of it. If you have a larger telescope and a smaller field of view, the Cone Nebula does have some nice structure

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