CHAMELEON MOLECULAR CLOUD AND CEDERBLAD 111 (Jim DeLillo)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Chamaeleon (Cha)

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CHAMELEON MOLECULAR CLOUD AND CEDERBLAD 111

Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud

and Cederblad 111

Cederblad 111 (Ced 111) is a blue reflection region in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon and is part of one of the closest (~550 light years) dark cloud complexes to the Sun. Ced 110 is the bright reflection in the lower portion of the image with the distinct bright arc. Both are part of Cha I dark cloud complex. The median age is estimated at ~2 Myr. The cloud complex is a stellar nursery and many new stars have been detected through their variability and H-a emission. The small, elongated, bright red objects at the center of the image are Hebrig-Haro objects (HH 49-50), which form from a collision between ionized jets of gas ejected from newly born stars and the surrounding cloud.

CHI-6 at TelescopeLive is an Officina Stellare RH200, a 20-cm F3 reflector, situated in the Rio Hurtado valley, Chile. It is equipped with a set of Astrodon astrophotography filters and thanks to its wide field of view it's an ideal instrument astrophotography of large nebulae.

Telescope Specification

Aperture: 200 mm (8 inches)

Focal Length: 600 mm

F-ratio: 3.0

Mount: Astro-Physics 1200GTO Equatorial Head Specifications

Minimum elevation: 32 degrees

Camera Specification

Model: FLI ML 16200 (spec sheet)

Pixel Size: 6 μm

Pixel Array: 4500 x 3600

Pixel Resolution: 2.06 arcsec/pixel

Cooling: -20 degrees

Field of View: 2.58 x 2.06 degrees (155 x 124 arcmin)

Filters (50mm square): Astrodon LRGB 2GEN, Ha (3nm), SII (3nm), OIII (3nm)

Position angle: Up is -90 degrees E of N

Allowed exposure times (in seconds): 60, 180, 300, 600, 1200

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RA (center)	11h07m50s.30
RA (top/left)	11h27m10s.75
RA (top/right)	11h24m27s.32
RA (bottom/right)	10h51m52s.47
RA (bottom/left)	10h47m46s.47

Dec (center)	-77°37′48″.2
Dec (top/left)	-78°48′14″.8
Dec (top/right)	-76°24′51″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-76°23′10″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	-78°46′10″.1

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