B 174 (LDN 1164) Dark Lane in Cepheus

Located at: RA 22 hours 07 minutes 07 seconds, Dec +59 degrees 06 minutes 46 seconds

Size: 16' x 5.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: 6 Ir

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c & -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56
Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 680 minutes  (68 x 10 minute subs), 08/1/2/4/5/6/2009; seeing 1.8-3.1 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 dark nebula is one of several dark patches just North and East if IC 1396. All three of the fields I imaged were taken mostly in heavy moonlight. See here for the B170 / B 171 complex, and here for B 173