Le Crescent
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The vastness of space displaced in the space / Of a nebulous brain with an invisible face / Both explosion and implosion as the stellar winds blow / From a Wolf-Rayet star with a nuclear glow / Its membrane stretched thin: what will the fate / Be of this structure named NGC6 triple-8?
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Image details
| Telescope: | Stellina | |
| Length: | 400mm | |
| Aperture: | 80mm | |
| F-stop: | f/5.0 | |
| Sessions: | 3 | |
| Captured: | 2022-06-24 to 2023-06-27 | |
| Lights: | 63 | |
| Exposure: | 300 | |
| Total exposure: | 5 h | |
| Ra: | 20h 12m 7.9s | |
| Dec: | +38° 20' 0.964 | |
| Size: | 27.983 x 22.885 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 0.301 deg | |
| Scale: | 0.343 arcsec/pixel |
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