Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro-Physics 155EDF
Imaging cameras: Finger Lakes Instruments Proline 16803
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Orion Short Tube 80
Guiding cameras: Orion Starshoot autoguider
Focal reducers: Astro-Physics 155TCC
Software: Photoshop CS5 · MaxIm DL 5
Filters: Baader Green · Lum · Baader blue
Dates:Oct. 7, 2010 , Oct. 8, 2010 , Oct. 9, 2010 , Oct. 10, 2010 , Oct. 14, 2010
Frames:
Baader Green: 8x900" bin 1x1
Lum: 40x900" bin 1x1
Baader Red: 8x900" bin 1x1
Baader blue: 8x900" bin 1x1
Integration: 16.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 8.40 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.25%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.00
Astrometry.net job: 1644930
RA center: 2h 59' 4"
DEC center: +17° 49' 40"
Pixel scale: 2.248 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 350.079 degrees
Field radius: 1.650 degrees
Resolution: 3736x3736
Locations: D.A.R.C. Observatory, Panoche, CA, United States; Lake San Antonio, San Miguel, CA, California, United States
Although very photogenic and well placed for northern observers these two objects are rarely imaged: LBN 762 / MBM13 dubbed the Drunken Dragon Nebula can be seen in the lower half of the image with LBN 753 just above it. This 2.5deg field is located in Aries just south of MBM12.
This relatively young association of gas and dust is home to an early stellar nursery and a few newborn stars [McGehee 2008]. Once believed to be the nearest dust cloud from our solar system it is now suggested to be about 850 light-years away.
The structure of both LBN 762 and 753 are quite amazing and one must wonder what forces are at play to create such intricate features. Numerous background galaxies are visible, some even through relatively dense part of the translucent clouds.
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