Steven Mohr
LDN1622 | Dark Nebula | LRGB
This object when described is often referred to as having a resemblance to a Bogeyman, and I have to agree! Looking like some kind of dark ominous shadow creature, standing poised in the night’s sky, with an arm raised ready to cast a hot fiery orb. But, LDN1622 is in fact not such dramatic object, being mostly an enormous lane of obscuring dust a front of a faint emission nebula that seems to form part of the massive Barnard’s Loop in the constellation of Orion. The fiery orb object is a reflection nebula, categorised as van den Bergh 62 [VDB62].
In compiling this image, I remained with the colour filters of Luminance, Red, Green and Blue; leaving out my collected Ha data set.
Hi resolution image:
c2.staticflickr.com/8/7832/47032903891_1e7323f58f_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 19.75 hours | Lum: 55 x 900 sec [13.75hr], RGB 450sec x 16 each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: March-April 2018, and December 2018-February 2019
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
LDN1622 | Dark Nebula | LRGB
This object when described is often referred to as having a resemblance to a Bogeyman, and I have to agree! Looking like some kind of dark ominous shadow creature, standing poised in the night’s sky, with an arm raised ready to cast a hot fiery orb. But, LDN1622 is in fact not such dramatic object, being mostly an enormous lane of obscuring dust a front of a faint emission nebula that seems to form part of the massive Barnard’s Loop in the constellation of Orion. The fiery orb object is a reflection nebula, categorised as van den Bergh 62 [VDB62].
In compiling this image, I remained with the colour filters of Luminance, Red, Green and Blue; leaving out my collected Ha data set.
Hi resolution image:
c2.staticflickr.com/8/7832/47032903891_1e7323f58f_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 19.75 hours | Lum: 55 x 900 sec [13.75hr], RGB 450sec x 16 each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: March-April 2018, and December 2018-February 2019
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr