MBM 54 integrated flux nebula and spiral galaxy NGC 7497. The interstellar cloud MBM 54 is in our Milky Way galaxy and about 1,000 light years distant, while NGC 7497 seen through that molecular dust is about 60 million light years from Earth.
Image taken using the 32-inch Schulman telescope with STX camera on Mt. Lemmon, AZ. Data capture and reduction by Adam Block, University of Arizona. LRGB processing by JDS using CCDStack and Photoshop CS6.
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