| "The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 82) |
Astrophotography by Jason Jennings |
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| Nebulae :: LDN1773 - Pipe Nebula | |
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| Object | Pipe Nebula |
| Comment |
The Pipe Nebula (aka Lynd's Dark Nebulae 1773, Barnard 59,65-67 and 78) as its name implies is a smoking pipe shaped dark nebula located in the constellation Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer). This cloud of gas and dust spans a large area of the sky and forms the hind quarters of the Dark Horse Nebula, an even larger dark nebula complex. The stem of the pipe comprises of catalogue items B59, B65-67, with the pipe bowl as B78. The nebula's opaque clouds absorb and block the starlight of the background Milky Way stars. The image is a RGB composite consisting of two mosaic panels |
| Optics | Takahashi FSQ-106ED F/5 (530mm FL) |
| Camera | Apogee Alta U16M - 1x1 bin (image scale: 3.5 arcsec/pix) |
| Mount | Software Bisque Paramount ME |
| Exposure | Total exposure time: 8 hours |
| Date | August 2011 |