SH2-135 (Sharpless 135 )

This northern Shapless is a nice object for any size telescope because there is a good amount of nebula in the area for the wider field of view. This nebula also has some nice details and structure that would come out very well using a larger telescope. The nebula responds to hydrogen-alpha very well. I took a 15 minute exposure with the oxygen III but did not pick up much, however as bright as part of the nebula is a narrowband color image may be possible. Creating a H-Alpha color image can easily be done, but the green and blue channels came back with nothing so the nebula appears to be mostly red.

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Images by Dean Salman