B 347 Dark Nebula in Cygnus

Located at: RA 20 hours 28 minutes 29 minutes, Dec +39 degrees 54 minutes 33 seconds

Size: 4.0' x 0.7'; Magnitude: --; Class: 5

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, 600 minutes (60 x 10 minute subs), 07/29/30/31 & 08/01/02/2008; seeing 2.3-3.7 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: This field is a part of the the southern half of what is known as 'The Butterfly Nebula'. Aka IC 1318, Gamma Cygni Region, and others. The dark lane to the northwest (upper right) is LDN 889. See here for a wide field (5.6° x 4.7°. DSS image. © CalTech/Palomar) color image of 'The Gamma Cygni' region