A lot of very faint clouds of dust and gas are visible around the north celestial pole. Among them, at the border between constellations Draco and Ursa Major (and close to the famous galaxies M81 and M82), is the Mandel-Wilson 2 nebula (aka "Angel Nebula"). This vast cloud of gas and dust is known to be faintly illuminated by the glow of the Milky Way (Integrated Flux Nebula). An impressive number of galaxies are visible in this field of view : more than 200 ! 20h cumulated exposure time, from my backyard, close to Montpellier (south of France).

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Nebulae and a supernova remnant in Auriga. This image shows a field of view between the emission nebula SH2-241 and the supernova remnant SNR G182.4+4.3 in the constellation Auriga. A very long integration time (100h total) was necessary to reveal very dim astronomical objects as well as the ionized hydrogen emission in the background. The supernova remnant was rarely imaged. It was discovered in 1998 with a radio telescope, and first imaged by professional astronomers in 2012. It is supposed to be very young (4400 years).

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