The Pipe Nebula and Environs (Barnard 78, 72) - RGB (OSC) (andrea tasselli)

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The Pipe Nebula and Environs (Barnard 78, 72) - RGB (OSC)

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This is one of the best part of the night-time sky, north or south, to be observed visually (naked eye, that is) under really pristine skies conditions. You can see all too obviously the Pipe Nebula (just the bowl in this case, Barnard 78) and the Snake Nebula (Barnard 72) which is one of my favourite dark nebulae. Also the the left of it is the "Sand Scorpion Nebula' and many other nameless features all part of the Prancing Dark Horse Nebula (note to myself: next time take the 135mm lens!). The most striking feature of it all that it took the whole of 212 seconds (don't ask how it came to be 212, I forgot but had something to do with quirks of the D50) to go this thick in stars. Sky so dark that the Milky Way actually casts shadows...

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