Dirt in Space - Dust Clouds in Aries (Rowland Archer)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Aries (Ari) · Contains: B202 · B204 · LDN 1451 · LDN 1455 · VdB16

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Dirt in Space - Dust Clouds in Aries

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Dirt in Space - Dust Clouds in Aries

No "targets" here in the traditional sense of M this or NGC that - just some interesting looking dust clouds in Aries, picked out one day when scrolling around in Aladin as visualized in Voyager's web framing wizard. My scheduler was showing a "hole" with no data being acquired that night, so I added this field and got some data.

Processing dust is "interesting" - we are already dealing with "light" objects that are close to the background in intensity, and dark objects are even closer.

I made a number of passes at this one - bringing things up bright enough to make the dust clouds stand out tended to bring out defects or artifacts, especially since the dust clouds are not really illuminated by anything. The little bright sail-shaped nebulosity in the lower right corner is a nice break from all the dark stuff.

616 minutes of R, 528 of G and 416 of B.

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RA (center)	03h27m04s.183
RA (top/left)	03h25m36s.190
RA (top/right)	03h25m31s.610
RA (bottom/right)	03h28m31s.541
RA (bottom/left)	03h28m37s.607

Dec (center)	+30°05′20″.90
Dec (top/left)	+30°31′48″.60
Dec (top/right)	+29°39′39″.19
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°38′50″.17
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°30′57″.67

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