This is a new dataset for this target from the AUS-2 part of the Telescope Live network.
I wanted to see how much better this dataset was than the previous CCD data from the El Sauce observatory in Chile, but also I wanted to see if I could find the hidden
Dragon of Light posted by Ahmed Wegdan earlier this month. I'm happy to say it is visible in this dataset, but it takes quite a bit of manipulation to make it apparent. That had some less than optimal effects on some other features in the surrounding nebula, but not too detrimental. The structure is only slightly more luminous than the Oiii background it hides in. It really needs more integration time to help bring out.
The AUS-2 is a relatively wide field FoV, so even the primary image is substantially cropped, and the close up of the hidden Dragon (versions B & C) are further cropped.
I didn't not match the image sizes, so Astrobin won't 'roll over' the image with the cropped verstion. Version C is the very cropped version with the hidden Dragon circled.
From Wikipedia:
NGC 6188 is an
emission nebula located about 4,000
light years away in the constellation Ara. The bright
open clusterNGC 6193, visible to the naked eye, is responsible for a region of reflection nebulosity within NGC 6188.NGC 6188 is a star forming nebula, and is sculpted by the massive, young stars that have recently formed there – some are only a few million years old. This spark of formation was probably caused when the last batch of stars went supernova.
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