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The Fenrir Nebula

This is not this object's official name. It's designation is SL 17 and it's a dark nebula in the constellation of Scorpius near to Gum55 and The Dark Tower. After the first deep image of it by Paul Haese, a New Zealand astroimager Rolf Olsen noticed that it bears a striking resemblance to some depictions of the monster wolf in Norse mythology - Fenrir

 

This is an 11 hour LHaRGB image (90, 300, 90, 90, 90 minutes). 30 min Ha and 15 min LRGB subs.

 

FOV is 58.4 x 72.9 arcmins @ 1.67 arcsec/pixel.

 

Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F7.3 (FL=1095mm) on a Paramount ME with SBIG STL 11000M camera.

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Uploaded on August 8, 2013
Taken on September 5, 2013