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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:Takahashi FSQ-106N Tak 106
Imaging camera:SBIG ST11000 ST11K
Mount:Paramount-ME Paramount ME
Guiding camera:SBIG ST11000 ST11K
Software:PixInsight
Resolution: 1600x1064
Dates:Nov. 3, 2016
Frames: 126x300"
Integration: 10.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.37 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.28%
Astrometry.net job: 1874672
RA center: 344.827 degrees
DEC center: -82.667 degrees
Pixel scale: 8.581 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 358.262 degrees
Field radius: 2.290 degrees
Locations: SidingSprings Itelescope Farm, Siding Springs, Australia
Data source: Amateur hosting facility
Remote source: iTelescope
This is a dusty area near the southern pole in constellation Octans. Its declination is strongly Southern (DEC -83), it can be observed exclusively from the regions of the southern hemisphere. In this area the phenomena of star formation creating low-mass stars takes place . This clouds are of great importance in the study of the formation of planetary systems and brown dwarfs.
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