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LDN 43 - Cosmic Bat

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Located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, this nebula strongly resembles a bat, so it was quickly nicknamed The Cosmic Bat nebula. LDN 43 is a dark nebula and star forming region, that contains the reflection nebula RNO90 and RNO91, that are illuminated by young stellar objects. LDN 43 is one of the closest star forming regions lying at about 1400 light-years distance.
In the middle lower part of the image, next to a yellow star, LEDA 3868080 can be seen. This galaxy lies over 400 million light-years from and is slightly larger than our galaxy.

Color image taken at the remote observatory from the E-Eye site in Spain. The image is composed of 25 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC color camera using a Takahashi CCA250 f3.6 astrograph, riding a unguided 10Micron GM2000.