Rod Michael shared another excellent dataset, this time of one of my favorite DSO types - Barnard dark nebulae. Rod was gracious enough to share 8.25 hours of Barnard 150 The Seahorse Nebula in LRGB. He captured a total of ninety-nine 300 second subframes (L=39, R=25, G=24, B=21) from his awesome AP rig at SRO in California. I spent about two hours processing his high-quality data through my LRGB processes in PixInsight, Lightroom and Photoshop.
"Barnard 150, also known as Seahorse Nebula, is a dark molecular cloud of dust in Cepheus constellation, so thick, that it absorbs all the light that comes from the stars behind it. This molecular cloud is part of our Milky Way galaxy, one of the 182 objects cataloged by astronomer Edward E. Barnard, and it lies at about 1200 Light Years away. Cloud location on the Milky Way's plane, makes it stand out on the background completely filled with colorful stars of any age and size.
Due to all of the light emitted from these stars, the distinctive, serpent like shape of this molecular cloud can be observed. This nebula is about 1 degree in size, width of two Moons. What is also interesting about this cloud, as it has 3 highly dense dust cores, which actually is a star formation region. They were cataloged by Lynds and named LDN 1082 A, B and C, which are marked on annotated image. (Info source:
MyAstroScience)"
CS & GB!
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