Photo of the Day - May 14, 2013
Larry Phillips from Green Valley, Arizona
NGC 2170 - NGC 2170 is a combination emission/reflection/dark nebula in the constellation Monoceros the Unicorn. All of these objects lie in the giant molecular cloud Mon R2, which lies approximately 2,400 light-years away. (5.6-inch Astro-Physics refractor at f/7.5, SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera, 20 hours of LRGB images stacked with 8 hours of Hydrogen-alpha images)
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