Hull nebula (aka NGC 3372)

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The Hull nebula is cataloged under the reference NGC 3372, it covers approximately three degrees of the sky at the distance of 8800 years light, what corresponds to a diameter of 460 years light.
It can be observed in the bare eye. 

Inside the southern Milky Way, on the left the open cluster of the Southern Pleiades.

Southern Sky, Namibia.

Copyright: Alessandro Cipolat Bares

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