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NGC3199 and Surroundings, John Dziuba
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NGC3199 and Surroundings

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NGC3199 and Surroundings

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This is a wide field view of the NGC3199 neighborhood.  Commonly known as the Banana nebula, NGC3199 lies roughly 12,000 light years away from us in the southern constellation Carina.   At its center lies an especially hot and luminous Wolf-Rayet star WR18.  Wolf-Rayet stars are massive, hot, short-lived stars that generate an intense and complex stellar wind.  This often leads to interestingly shaped neublae around them as is the case here. 

Above and to the right of NGC3199 is a cool little planetary nebula PK283-01.2.  And below NGC3199 is the difficult to image NGC3247 also known as the Whirling Dervish Nebula.  This will be a future project for me next season.

I tried to keep the color pallet in the natural realm for this one.  I feel like I could still improve on the processing a bit, but a busy work schedule and a building data backlog are preventing me dedicating the time that it needs.

Thanks for stopping by.
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