The Flying Bat and Squid Nebulae, captured with 37 hours of integration time. The Squid Nebula is so faint that it requires long imaging sessions. The longer the better. 🦑 ✪
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A deep-sky image showing the sprawling, faintly glowing structure of the Giant Squid Nebula (Ou4) with long, thin, blue-tinted lobes resembling a squid's arms stretching diagonally across the frame. The nebula is immersed in a wider field of reddish hydrogen emission from Sh2-129. Near the center is the bright triple star system HR8119, thought to power the outflow. Countless background stars are scattered across the dark sky.
📸 Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula
📷 Credit: Massimo Di Fusco
📅 July 5, 2025
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Stunning telescopic image showcasing the Squid Nebula (Ou4) nestled within the Flying Bat Nebula (Sh2-129) in the Cepheus constellation. The image, a composite of 20 hours of data, reveals the Squid Nebula's distinct bipolar shape and its possible location within Sh2-129, approximately 2,300 light-years away and spanning nearly 50 light-years. The reddish hues represent hydrogen emission from Sh2-129, while the blue-green highlights doubly ionized oxygen in Ou4, potentially an outflow driven by the triple star system HR8119.
Astronomy Picture from 11/09/2015
A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150911.html
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44 hours of exposure with my Nikon D5300 and my Star Adventurer 2i, 180mm lens. Used DeepSky Stacker for stacking pictures and edited with Pixinsight and Photoshop. I got all that exposure time to see if I could resolve the Squid Nebula, and it worked. #flyingbatnebula #squidnebula #astrophotography
