Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  IC 1283  ·  IC 1284  ·  NGC 6589  ·  NGC 6590  ·  NGC 6595  ·  Sh2-37  ·  VdB118  ·  VdB119
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IC1283-IC1284 Nebula Complex, lowenthalm
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IC1283-IC1284 Nebula Complex

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IC1283-IC1284 Nebula Complex

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This is a pretty nutty complex of open clusters (NGC6595 and unnamed clusters), emission nebula (IC 1284), reflection nebula (IC1283 and NGC 6590), dark nebula (LDN315) along with the edge of a star cloud at the southwest edge of the image that is actually the edge of part of the large dark nebula. I will need to take a deeper image sometime. I only had a 3.5 minutes of total exposure, and clearly there is more to see here. Also, the nebula NGC 6589 should be on the right edge of the image, but is invisible, so I am missing it or its mis-plotted in SkySafari.

It was windy, so it took more like 10 minutes to collect the 3.5 minutes of data that was used by SharpCap in this live-stack. I took the raw data from SharpCap and stretched the contrast in GIMP to bring out the red emission elements. Like those little dust motes on the bright blue portions of the nebula!

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IC1283-IC1284 Nebula Complex, lowenthalm

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