B 340 (LDN 707) Dark Nebula in Aquila
Center of field at approximately: RA 19 hours 48 minutes 49 seconds, Dec +11 degrees 29 minutes 20 seconds
Size: 7.0' (15')*; Magnitude: --; Class: 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 Red filter, 300 minutes (30 x 10 minute subs), 10/05/06/2008; seeing 3.0-3.7 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes:* | My software (Megastar v5.0.12) plots B 340 at 19 48 47.5 +11 23 44, which is at the center, lower one fourth of this image. Description from the on-line Barnard Catalogue is "Irregular, curved, diam. 7´ 25´ S of BD+11°3994 (5.8 arcmin), a narrow extension for 15´ to the N." |