Sh2-132 Lion Nebula

Image Description and Details :

This is actually a part of the Lion Nebula: you can see upside down the Lion’s head on the center right and his back and tail doing an arc on the top left of the picture.
This region is populated by a huge number of class O and B and also by a couple of Wolf-Rayet stars as it used to be a strong star nursery area.

Shooting Data
– HA+OIII (HOO) composition
– 26 480″ HA Light frames at -10°C / gain 120
– 57 480″ OIII Light frames at -10°C / gain 250
– 31 dark/flat/darkflat frames
– ASI 294MC pro camera
– Skywatcher AZEQ6
– Skywatcher 200/1000 PDS

Frames captured between 24/27th of May 2020 from my backyard near Milan (Italy).
Bortle 8 / SQM 18.5 heavy light polluted sky

Copyright: Marco Prelini