The Glowing Dust Mountain BBW-56 (Logan Carpenter)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Puppis (Pup) · Contains: HD61762 · HD61946 · HD61991 · HD62060 · HD62109 · HD62212 · HD62253 · HD62279 · HD62448 · HD62504 · HD62505 · HD62542 · HD62560 · HD62579 · HD62625 · HD62738 · HD62739 · HD62804 · HD62846 · HD63218

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The Glowing Dust Mountain BBW-56

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While the moon was absent from the night sky, I decided to look for another "dark" nebula to image with the Askar 65PHQ and the ASI600mmPro. Cruising around the offline sky map in NINA, I came across this area, not far from the Vela Supernova remnant, that had no apparent name or designation and thought it looked somewhat like a mountain of dust.
So I imaged with LRGB filters and also did a few test exposures with the Ha filter and it picked up a glowing rim of Ha just above the ridge of cosmic dust.
I might try to add some more Luminance data once the moon retreats to see if I can bring out more detail in the dust.

If this area does have a name or designation, I would love to know.

Edit: Now that I know the name of this object (thanks to those who let me know) and I've had a chance to look at other images of this target, I went back and reprocessed it, concentrating on the detail that was lurking in the Ha I had collected. I would still like to add more time to this image in the future but I think this reprocess is a big improvement on the original.

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C

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RA (center)	07h41m10s.63
RA (top/left)	07h45m48s.82
RA (top/right)	07h46m18s.52
RA (bottom/right)	07h36m43s.19
RA (bottom/left)	07h35m51s.23

Dec (center)	-42°25′14″.0
Dec (top/left)	-43°39′10″.4
Dec (top/right)	-41°16′14″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-41°10′37″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	-43°33′20″.4

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