'Nazgul Nebula' - Barnard 22 in Taurus (Steve Milne)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: IC 2087

'Nazgul Nebula' - Barnard 22 in Taurus, Steve Milne

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'Nazgul Nebula' - Barnard 22 in Taurus

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'Nazgul Nebula' - Barnard 22 in Taurus

Link: https://stevemilne.smugmug.com/Photos/Sky/Nebulae/i-rCVfrBQ

The Taurus molecular cloud is an enormous area of gas and dust located around 400 - 450 light years away from Earth. Barnard 22 is a small segment of this cloud. To my eyes, it has the appearance of a creature on horseback (facing leftwards and upwards in this image) – I am reminded of the ‘Black Riders’ – or Nazgul - from the Lord of the Rings. Hence the title.

Embedded within B22 is the emission nebula IC 2087, also known as the Little Flame nebula.

Barry and I imaged this target from our rig in Spain between 28 December 2019 and 2 January 2020. I also had FSQ 106 data from the Deep Sky West facility in New Mexico. The US data was collected between 23 and 27 January 2017. I thought that combining both sets of data could be interesting.

Capture Details:

Telescopes: Takahashi FSQ 106 x 2

Mounts: 10 Micron GM 1000 HPS & Paramount MyT

Cameras: QSI 683 x 2

Filters: Astrodon

Lum: 41 x 600s (Spain); 30 x 900s (US)

Red: 24 x 600s (Spain); 20 x 900s (US)

Green: 24 x 600s (Spain); 20 x 900s (US)

Blue: 24 x 600s (Spain); 20 x 900s (US)

Total exposure = 41 hours and 20 minutes

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Entre Encinas y Estrellas (e-EyE)

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