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LDN 1622 - The Boogeyman Nebula in Orion in SHO, Cfosterstars
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LDN 1622 - The Boogeyman Nebula in Orion in SHO

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LDN 1622 - The Boogeyman Nebula in Orion in SHO

Revision title: Reprocessed with new AI workflow

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I first saw this target when a did a wide field image of Barnard's Loop in Orion and I wanted to image it directly. I have failed repeatedly on this. With my new QHY268M and Astrodon 3nm filters, I tried again with good success. This is 21 hours of exposure in SHO. 

The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only easily seen in long telescopic exposures of the region. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard's Loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion. But the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to be much closer than Orion's more famous nebulae, perhaps only 500 light-years away. At that distance, this 1 degree wide field of view would span less than 10 light-years. Its foreboding appearance lends this dark expanse a popular name, the Boogeyman Nebula.

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Title: Reprocessed with new AI workflow

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LDN 1622 - The Boogeyman Nebula in Orion in SHO, Cfosterstars