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Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of the nebula Caldwell 6. The amateur image looks like a bright-white ball edged in light green. The Hubble image reveals bright cloud rings in colors of blue, pink, white, and salmon all surrounding a bright central point.

Caldwell 6: Amateur Image vs. Hubble Image

Caldwell 6 (C6) is a nebula located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Draco. The left image was taken with an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope using a 0.63x focal reducer and a DSLR Camera. The right image was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Image Credit: Amateur Image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain) and Z. Tsvetanov (NASA)
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