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By Nana Dadzie Ghansah

Xavier Strottner and Marcel Drechsler. ©Marcel Drechsler

Intro:

A group of serious amateur astronomers and astrophotographers are discovering hitherto unknown nebulae. Tops among them are a German graphic designer called Marcel Drechsler and a Frenchman named Xavier Strottner. By himself, Drechsler has found 37 new deep space objects (DSOs). Six of them have been confirmed as planetary nebulae. The two have discovered…