B 29 (LDN 1523) Dark Nebula in Auriga

Located at: RA 05 hours 06 minutes 18 seconds, Dec +31 degrees 42 minutes 07 seconds

Size: 10'; Magnitude: --; Class: 6 C

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -30c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 01/14/2007

Processing:

CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes: This is the first of several Barnard Dark Nebula I imaged in Auriga in February ... I found positional discrepancies from my software (Megastar v 5.0.12) for several nebulae ... B 29 is about 6 minutes North/Northwest of the Megastar position (05 06 24, +31 36 00)