B 163 (LDN 1106) aka "the Frog" Dark Nebula in Cepheus
Located at: RA 21 hours 42 minutes 11 seconds, Dec +56 degrees 44 minutes 01 seconds
Size: 4.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: 4 Ir G
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 720 minutes (72 x 10 minute subs), 07/3/4/5/6/2009; seeing 2.0-3.1 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.6.0.4, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | This little dark lane is situated on the southern half of the IC 1396 complex. There are many lark lanes and interesting objects in the IC 1396 complex. See this wonderful color image from Davide De Martin for an overview of IC 1396. My image of vdB 142 is here |
