Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  HD65914  ·  LBN 801
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MBM 25, Ginge Anvik
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MBM 25

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MBM 25, Ginge Anvik
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MBM 25

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Since I could only find one other image of this object in the constellation of Lynx I figured I'd give it a shot. During acquisition however, my camera started acting up and eventually misbehaved so badly that I had to let it go to the great CCD-camera in the sky. The problems made it almost impossible to get consistent calibration frames for the data and I couldn't see a way to finish the image until the RC Astro tools came along. So fortunately all the nights in the observatory weren't for nothing.

Apart from knowing MBM 25 (Magnani, Blitz and Mundy) is a high galactic latitude molecular cloud there is really not much I know about it. I've found very little information about it and the little I've found was written in scientific terms I'm unfamiliar with, nothing about distance or apparent magnitude. According to a 2016 dissertation by Ajay Mishra High Latitude Clouds (dubbed molecular cirrus in the mid nineties) "...are in a transitional phase between diffuse and dark clouds. The grains are heated uniformly by local interstellar radiation field with uniform temperatures. This makes them an excellent source for the study of dust properties and test them for atomic to complex molecular transition, and provides the important information’s of the interstellar dust, as HLCs are likely formed from interstellar medium."

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MBM 25, Ginge Anvik