SH2-134 (Sharpless 134 )

This is a very large object which takes up almost one quarter of Cephus and is also very faint. This are does response to hydrogen-alpha very well so it is the best filter to use. To capture the entire object you need almost five degrees field of view but the brightest parts are near the middle near Barnard 174 seen on the bottom right Barnard 173 seen on the top right. The brightest area does have some interesting structure to make a nice HA-RGB color image but you will need to blend some of the H-Alpha data into the red and blue channels to colorize it.

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Images by Dean Salman