B 127 (LDN 544) / B 129 (LDN 549) / B 130 (LDN 542) Dark Nebulae in Aquila
Center of field at approximately: RA 19 hours 01 minutes 44 seconds, Dec -05 degrees 25 minutes 31 seconds
Size: 4.0' / 5.0' / 7.0'; Magnitude: -- / -- / --; Class: 5 Ir (all)
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 Red filter, 320 minutes (32 x 10 minute subs), 09/27/28/2008; seeing 2.4-3.1 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | This little trio of dark nebulae are among a couple of dozen Barnard small dark patches that cluster around the northern half of the 'Scutum Star Cloud'. This field is about 2.8 degrees WSW of M 11. B 127 is centered, B 129 is north and east (above and left), and B 130 is barley noticeable to the south east (below left) |