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Nebula · Perseus

Nébuleuse de l'Empreinte fossile

An emission nebula in Perseus, discovered by William Herschel in 1790, 10,700 light-years away.

Le Cœur et l'Âme · Photograph by the author · 3h 47m of exposure, DwarfLab DWARF 3

Nébuleuse de l'Empreinte fossile, NGC 1491, duration not logged
NGC 1491 · Nébuleuse de l'Empreinte fossile duration not logged · Unistellar eQuinox 2

It is a region of ionised hydrogen: massive stars lodged in the cloud light it with their ultraviolet radiation, and that is what gives it its red colour. In the photo, it forms a small pink cloud at the centre of the frame, hemmed on its right by a redder filament, around a bright star.

Source: Wikipédia en français, NGC 1491. A figure wrong? Report it.

duration not logged 1 shot

0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

Temps d'intégration : the total exposure time, the sum of every exposure stacked on an object.

Designation
NGC 1491
Family
Nebula
Constellation
Perseus
Shots taken
1
Album date
29 September 2026
Cumulative integration
not logged

The album date is the one the photo album gives the file, not the date of the shot: the device burns none into this image.

Every shot

The same object, several versions

2 versions of one and the same capture. A line under each says which: what comes out of the device, and what the app made of it.

Nébuleuse de l'Empreinte fossile, image with neither date nor duration burnt in, colour variant, black background

duration not logged album date: 30 October 2026

Unistellar eQuinox 2 · colour variant, black background

Nébuleuse de l'Empreinte fossile, image with neither date nor duration burnt in, colour variant, lightened background

duration not logged album date: 29 September 2026

Unistellar eQuinox 2 · colour variant, lightened background

In the same family

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NGC 7000 · IC 5070, Amérique du Nord et Pélican

NGC 7000 · IC 5070 · Cygnus

Amérique du Nord et Pélican

22h 12m 3 shots

0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

NGC 7023, Nébuleuse de l'Iris

NGC 7023 · Cepheus

Nébuleuse de l'Iris

11h 34m 4 shots

0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

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