The Dark Wolf : Barnard 228 (Bogdan Borz)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Lupus (Lup) · Contains: B228

Image of the day 07/04/2020

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The Dark Wolf : Barnard 228

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

Image of the day 07/04/2020

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The Dark Wolf : Barnard 228

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

The Dark Wolf Nebula is situated in the Southern constellation of Lupus. It is located at around 500 ly from Earth. It's a target that is rarely imaged, I found under 10 images on the Web.

This is my first dark nebula. I started this project with Chilescope almost two months ago, but due to bad weather it advanced really slowly. It was the first time when I used bin 2 for the RGB in order to increase the exposure time for the Luminance and pull out as much faint detail as possible. Binning x 2 does create some artifacts (I simply staraligned in Pixinsight, maybe a Drizzle would have been a better solution). This is the first processing, I wasn't able to significantly improve it with the next essays (something that happens pretty often, you have to get it right the first time). Hope you like it.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	3631603
PixInsight job	FM2EM6VAHXQG936CX17VVJ32BT766E6T
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	15h45m30s.480
RA (top/left)	15h48m07s.715
RA (top/right)	15h47m55s.533
RA (bottom/right)	15h42m55s.980
RA (bottom/left)	15h43m03s.432

Dec (center)	-34°24′06″.45
Dec (top/left)	-34°54′27″.53
Dec (top/right)	-33°51′29″.13
Dec (bottom/right)	-33°53′36″.60
Dec (bottom/left)	-34°56′34″.65

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