B 26 / B 27 / B 28 & vdB 31 Dark

B 26 / B 27 / B 28 & vdB 31 Dark Nebulae & Bright Nebula in Auriga

Center of field approximately: RA 04 hours 55 minutes 11 seconds, Dec +30 degrees 40 minutes 31 seconds

Size: 5.0'/5.0'/4.0' & 8.0' x 3.5'; Magnitude: all --; Class: 6 Ir & Reflection

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:	8" f5 Newtonian reflector
Camera:	ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56
Image:	Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 210 minutes (21 x 10 minute subs), 01/21/2007
Processing:	CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop 7.0
Location:	Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)
Notes:	This field is the last and probably the most interesting of the Dark Nebulae I imaged in Auriga during January 2007. The positions seem fairly close to the cataloged numbers, but there seems to be four 'dark spots here ... from west to east (right to left) are B 26, B 27 and B 28 ... the middle of the 'three' (B 27) is clearly two dark spots north-south of each other. vdB 31 (LBN 798) is the barley discernable nebulosity between the two 'bright' stars just under B 28.