Blue Horsehead Nebula (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: 12.33 · 14 Sco) · 14 nu. Sco · 144 Vibilia · B40 · IC 4592 · IC 4601 · Jabbah · LBN 1113 · LBN 1114 · LBN 1115 · LDN 1717 · LDN 1719 · LDN 1721 · The star Jabbah (ν Sco · VdB101 · VdB102 · VdB103

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Blue Horsehead Nebula

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Blue Horsehead Nebula

This is the lessor known Horsehead nebula which is actually very close to the Rho Ophiuchi Nebula I just imaged. I wasn't sure how this would turn out as I captured this with my LRGB filters, but had to delete most of my Green images due to clouds. Luckily there is not much green in this image.

NASA Excerpt: This cloud complex is a reflection nebula cataloged as IC 4592. Reflection nebulas are actually made up of very fine dust that normally appears dark but can look quite blue when reflecting the light of energetic nearby stars. In this case, the source of much of the reflected light is a star at the eye of the horse. That star is part of Nu Scorpii, one of the brighter star systems toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). A second reflection nebula dubbed IC 4601 is visible surrounding two stars to the right of the image center.

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RA (center)	16h13m54s.25
RA (top/left)	16h05m36s.37
RA (top/right)	16h14m38s.48
RA (bottom/right)	16h22m15s.29
RA (bottom/left)	16h13m10s.89

Dec (center)	-19°23′37″.9
Dec (top/left)	-18°45′04″.6
Dec (top/right)	-21°27′06″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-20°00′52″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-17°20′10″.3

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