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Nebulas and star clusters in Monoceros

author: Tom Davis/Novapix

reference: a-neb98-20870

Image Size 300 DPI: 40 * 40 cm

This beautiful region contains a large variety of deep sky objects, such as open clusters, emission and reflection nebulae, herbig-haro objects, and even a few galaxies. LBN 1022 is the bright nebula in the center of the image. NGC 2309 is the open cluster in the upper center. vdB 87 is lower left. This image is in the region near M50.

Keywords for this photo:

2009 - ASTRONOMY - EMISSION NEBULA - LBN 1022 - MONOCEROS - NEBULA - NGC 2309 - NGC 2316 - OPEN CLUSTER - REFLECTION NEBULA - STAR - STAR CLUSTER - STAR FORMATION - VDB 87 -