Thanks Ann, you are very kind! Colors in this part of the sky are really amazing, I am happy to have been able to get them in their gloryAnn wrote:That's a splendid, fantastic image, Marco Lorenzi! It is amazingly beautiful. The colors are absolutely stunning, some of them vivid, some of them subtle. And it is the first time ever that I have actually seen emission nebula Sharpless 34 (the nebula at upper left) in a picture of the Lagoon and Trifid region. I wonder what causes this nebula. Could it be the combined ultraviolet light from all the hot bright stars in this area?
I had indeed discovered Sharpless 22 before. That nebula is centered on O type star HD 162978.
Anyway, that is a brilliant, lovely picture! Thank you, Marco Lorenzi!
Ann
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