Kepple and Sanner (The Night Sky Observer’s Guide) give this one a meager one star visual rating in 8-10 inch scopes. But for the imager, I give it a solid five-star rating .
I took a rather wide field image (58 arc minutes) to capture the surrounding faint nebulosity which reminds me of steam rising.
The image is at:
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
As I take longer and longer H-a images, I keep bringing out more and more nebulosity – it seems to never end! At first I thought it was light pollution gradients, but I am beginning to believe there is no area of the sky that is totally dark save for inside of Barnard Dark Nebulae.
Thank you for visiting my site.
Clear skies,
Dennis Persyk
Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net
Hampshire, IL
I took a rather wide field image (58 arc minutes) to capture the surrounding faint nebulosity which reminds me of steam rising.
The image is at:
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
As I take longer and longer H-a images, I keep bringing out more and more nebulosity – it seems to never end! At first I thought it was light pollution gradients, but I am beginning to believe there is no area of the sky that is totally dark save for inside of Barnard Dark Nebulae
Thank you for visiting my site.
Clear skies,
Dennis Persyk
Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net
Hampshire, IL
