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A complex and star filled region of clusters, emission nebulosity and dark nebula. Sharpless 132 is the large emission object to the lower left of center. Although a number of bright orange stars are involved in the nebulosity, they do not constitute a cluster. The other emission complex is a the top center, Sharpless 135. To its right is a faint cloud of unamed red nebulosity in the field. Some very striking dark nebula appear in this field as well. In the upper right is Barnard 171 and 170, and just to the right of S132 is Barnard 369.

Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  2x8mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  10 C
Processing: Photoshop, PW Pro.

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