Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  50 ome Tau  ·  51 Tau  ·  52 phi Tau  ·  53 Tau  ·  56 Tau  ·  59 chi Tau  ·  62 Tau  ·  65 kap Tau  ·  67 Tau  ·  69 ups Tau  ·  72 Tau  ·  B10  ·  B14  ·  B18  ·  B19  ·  B209  ·  B210  ·  B211  ·  B212  ·  B213  ·  B214  ·  B215  ·  B216  ·  B217  ·  B218  ·  B219  ·  B22  ·  B7  ·  IC 2087  ·  IC 359  ·  And 13 more.
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Dark Nebulae in Taurus, Todd Stephens
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Dark Nebulae in Taurus

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Dark Nebulae in Taurus

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Dark nebulae in Taurus captured with my rather ancient and noisy Canon 500D/T1i. Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens stopped down to f/4 to make focusing a little less touchy. The temperature dropped down to about -15C, which probably helped the camera out quite a bit.

This is an integration of 267 120-second light frames, unguided on my SkyGuider Pro. Calibrated with 30 darks, flats, and dark flats. The image was calibrated, stacked, and briefly processed in Astro Pixel Processor, then stars removed in Starnet++, and finished processing in GIMP.

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Dark Nebulae in Taurus, Todd Stephens