Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)
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Bernes 149 and Lupus 3, Alex Woronow
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Bernes 149 and Lupus 3

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Bernes 149 and Lupus 3, Alex Woronow
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Bernes 149 and Lupus 3

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Bernes 149 and Lupus 3

OTA: CDK24” f/6.5
Camera: Moravian C3-61000 Pro, 2x2 binned at capture
Observatory: Heaven’s Mirror, Chile

Exposures:
R: 22 x 300 sec
G: 27 x 300
B: 13 x 300

Total Exposure time used: 5.2 hours
Image Width: 42.5 arcminutes

Processing: PixInsight, Topaz Studio2, custom scripts for image weighting and star replacement

The dark cloud, Lupus 3 and the blue reflection nebula, Bernes 149, lie at Scorpius-Lupus constellation boundary. The two bright stars illuminating the reflection nebula were born in the dark nebula and are about 1M years old—the oldest stars in that region of space. Numerous pre-main-sequence stars, young stars, have been observed in this cloud. For more information, see https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2023/05/reflection-nebula-bernes-149-in-dark.html.

The reflection nebula appears as if the cloud has interacting ripples (remember high-school physics?).

Alex Woronow

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Bernes 149 and Lupus 3, Alex Woronow