IC 348, vdB 19 and B3 in the Perseus Molecular Cloud (pete_xl)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: 38 omi Per · Atik · B3 · B4 · IC 348 · LBN 601 · LBN 749 · LBN 758 · LDN 1468 · LDN 1470 · The star οPer · omi Per Cloud

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IC 348, vdB 19 and B3 in the Perseus Molecular Cloud

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IC 348, vdB 19 and B3 in the Perseus Molecular Cloud

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The so called Perseus Molecular Cloud (Per MCld) covers a region of about 6 x 2 degrees which contains star forming regions like IC 348 in this image. Per MCld is about 1,000 ly from earth.

IC 348 is an about 2 million years old open star cluster embeded into the reflection nebula vdB 19 (Cederblad 20) that is lighted by the 3,8 mag star Omicron Persei ("Atik").

The region is also characterized by large clouds of interstellar dust. The magenta/red glooming area in the left part of the image is the dark nebula Barnard 3 surrounded by an accumulation of dust that shows a red luminescense in response to ultraviolet photons known as Extended Red Emission (ERE).

The image was shot with an ASI2600mmpro and a 130/910mm TS Photoline triplet apo reduced to 720 mm f/5.75.

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44 x 60s red
42 x 60s green
43 x 60s blue

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Title: (with Ha luminance added for the dark nebula structures around B3)

Description: I added 4 hrs of Ha luminance data to improve the darkl nebula structures around Barnard 3.

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RA (center)	03h42m03s.15
RA (top/left)	03h38m02s.92
RA (top/right)	03h45m56s.100
RA (bottom/right)	03h46m05s.74
RA (bottom/left)	03h38m05s.99

Dec (center)	+31°58′39″.1
Dec (top/left)	+31°24′49″.5
Dec (top/right)	+31°23′07″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+32°31′55″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°33′44″.3

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Revision title: (with Ha luminance added for the dark nebula structures around B3)

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