SH2-242 (Sharpless 242 )

This nebula is very small but fairly bright and is sometimes picked up on wide field images of SH2-240 which is not far away. The nebula does well with hydrogen-alpha so you can create a nice HA-RGB image. With a large telescope, you will pick up some nice structure

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Images by Dean Salman