Egidio Vergani, taken from Campo Cecina, Carrara, Italy LBN 182, a nebula in Cygnus, surrounds the Wolf-Rayet star WR 134 some 6,000 light-years away; the star’s powerful wind is blowing a faint bubble into the surrounding gas, visible at upper left as a bright blue shock front. The imager took about 11 hours of exposure through with a 3.1-inch f/6 refractor and a dual-band Hα/OIII filter.
Hot gas in Cygnus
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