B147 (LDN 853) Dark Nebula in Cygnus
Located at: RA 20 hours 06 minutes 42 seconds, Dec +35 degrees 22 minutes 35 seconds
Size: 11' x 1.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: -- (1 Ir ?)
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, 360 minutes (36 x 10 minute subs), 08/26/27/28/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
'B 147' is centered in this image. Other dark lanes in this area are LDN 852 and LDN 856 ... This area may be collectively known as the "Fish on the Platter", a large (360') area also known in one of my software packages as B 144 and LDN 857, with a classification of 1 Ir |