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SH2-170
Cassiopeia
Penryn, California
October 2007
FS-128G  (ag, ST-4)
ST-10XME L 20 minutes

Sharpless 2-170 is a very large and faint emission nebula.  The image above has been down sampled 0.5x.

Sh2-170 is in the vicinity of the Cassiopeia OB5 supershell. The sole exciting star of Sh 2-170 is DM+63 2093, an O8 V star of 31 solar masses. (galaxymap.org)