B 104 (LDN 532) Dark Nebula in Scutum

Located at: RA 18 hours 47 minutes 19 seconds, Dec -04 degrees 33 minutes 53 seconds

Size: 16' x 1.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: 5 (L-shaped)

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 09/11/12/2007

Processing:

CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This interesting dark lane in located 20 arc minutes North of Beta Sct, on the northern edge of the great Scutum Star Cloud. It is about 1.9 degrees NNW of M 11