Deep Sky Object in Winter
Around Sh2-273 (Vast Nebulosity around Cone Nebula)

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Date & Time: Dec 15 2018, from 25:17 to 26:16 JST(+0900)
Mosaic of 2 flames with 6min. × 10 shots
Optical: BORG 67FL with a conversion lens (f=324mm, F4.8)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI JP Equatorial
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648)
Device Size...36×24mm, Sensitivity...ISO1600


Sh2-273 / Diffused Nebula, type 1 E
R.A.06h 37m 36.0s (2000.0)
Dec.+09° 50' 00" (2000.0)
Apparent Size140'
Real Size190 light yrs.
Magnitude -
Distance2600 light yrs.
Other IDsLBN911
This star field image including the Cone Nebula has captured about 5 degrees in span. A variable star of S Mon is glittering around center of image, and fine stars of open cluster is distributing around the star.
Very huge reddish nebulosities occupy almost this entire field. Its indistinct expanse extends to around the Rosette Nebula at 6 degrees southward. The complicated structures can be appreciated only in photographs. You can see a flow of dark nebula in northwest of this image.
Deepsky objects around Sh2-273 Nebulae & Star clusters around Sh2-273

Italic indicates numbers of open clusters



Around Sh2-267 to Sh2-271
Sh2-278

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