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78 August 2014 sky & telescope

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PROPELLER IN THE WINGS
John Davis
The oddly symmetrical Propeller Nebula, DWB 111, is a denser concentration of a
much larger cloud of pinkish hydrogen gas permeating the constellation Cygnus.
Details: Celestron 11-inch Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph with QSI 583ws CCD
camera. Total exposure was 1⅓ hours through Astrodon color and Hα fi lters. ✦

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