Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  24 d UMa  ·  NGC 2787  ·  NGC 2810  ·  The star 24UMa
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LBN 683 and IFN

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LBN 683 is a cold, molecular cloud in the northern sky near M81/M82. It’s listed in the Lynd’s Bright Nebula catalog as a brightness of 6, or “barely detectable”. Emission nebulae contain ionized gases which emit their own light. Reflection nebulae are clouds of gas or dust that are illuminated from nearby stars. But molecular clouds are usually not near sources of light or heat so they are cold enough to allow gas molecules to form, and are only faintly illuminated from the diffuse light of distant stars in the galaxy.

This one was extraordinarily dim and took over 32 hours of exposure over 5 nights to get this image. There’s not a lot of information available on the internet regarding the size, distance, etc. of these kinds of clouds. But they makes for an interesting image. This image covers about 4° of the sky horizontally.

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LBN 683 and IFN, dkuchta5