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- ALL NIGHT LONG
A star party rages under
Californian desert skies in
this image that spans seven
hours. The photographer
used a Canon EOS 6D Mark II
to capture one-minute
exposures at f/4 and
ISO 4000. • Chris Cook - FULL SPEED AHEAD
Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull 1
(upper right) is a planetary
nebula in Cassiopeia about
2,300 light-years distant. It
surrounds a white dwarf in
a binary system moving
through space at tens of
kilometers per second — fast
enough to form a bow shock
in front of it and leave a tail of
hot hydrogen gas in its wake.
Abell 6, another planetary
nebula, is at lower left.
- Jon Talbot
- IN PLAIN SIGHT
IC 342 in Camelopardalis
is just outside the Local
Group of galaxies, only about
11 million light-years away.
But the dust of the Milky Way
dims it by a couple of
magnitudes, giving it the
nickname of the Hidden
Galaxy. The image was taken
with nearly 10 hours of
exposure on a 12-inch scope.
- Terry Riopka
- THE PELICAN’S THROAT
Impressive jets and pillars
abound in this section of the
Pelican Nebula (IC 5067/70)
in Cygnus, where young stars
are eroding away the dense
gas and dust that birthed
them. The image represents
19.5 hours of exposure
with an 8-inch scope in
the Hubble palette.
- Hassan Abdollahabadi
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