{"id":831,"date":"2025-09-29T23:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/?p=831"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:21:56","slug":"sh2-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/sh2-101\/","title":{"rendered":"SH2-101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F-1024x678.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F-1024x678.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F-768x509.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F-1536x1017.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SH2_101_F-2048x1357.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikipedia: Description:   <strong>Sharpless 101<\/strong> (<strong>Sh 2-101<\/strong>) is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H_II_region\">H II region<\/a><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sh_2-101#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emission_nebula\">emission nebula<\/a> located in the constellation <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cygnus_(constellation)\">Cygnus<\/a>. It is sometimes also called the <em>Tulip Nebula<\/em> because it appears to resemble the outline of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tulip\">tulip<\/a> when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stewart_Sharpless\">Stewart Sharpless<\/a> in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light-year\">light-years<\/a> (5.7\u00d710<sup>16<\/sup>\u00a0km; 3.5\u00d710<sup>16<\/sup>\u00a0mi) from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth\">Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sh_2-101\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sh_2-101\">Wikipedia Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Acquisition Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.49), 19px);\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\" style=\"border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:1px\"><tbody><tr><td>Telescope<\/td><td>Takahashi TOA-130<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Optics<\/td><td>Takahashi TOA-645 Flattener<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Filter<\/td><td>Optolong Ultimate Dual Band<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Camera<\/td><td>ASI2600MC Pro OSC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Integration Time<\/td><td>4.9 hours<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Subframes<\/td><td>59 x 300 seconds<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date<\/td><td>September 28, 2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Location<\/td><td>Carlsbad, California<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia: Description: Sharpless 101 (Sh 2-101) is a H II region[1] emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything","category-nebulas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}