LDN 1522 (B 222*?) Dark Nebula in Auriga
Located at: RA 05 hours 07 minutes 12 seconds, Dec +34 degrees 04 minutes 00 seconds
Size: ~10'; Magnitude: --; Class: --
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, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 01/16/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes:* | This object *may* be Barnard 222 ...
B 222 is listed at 05 08 24, +32 11
00 ... about 38 minutes North/Northeast of B 29
(LDN 1523) ... The CDS Simbad database lists LDN 1523 as about mid way
between B 29 and the listed position of
B 222. A query of
Aladin previewer
for Barnard 222 shows a normal star field Checking Edward Emerson Barnard's "A Photographic Atlas Of Selected Regions of The Milky Way" reveals that Dark Object 222 is NOT in the plates, but listed in the Atlas ... description is "Round, indefinite, diam. 10 minutes" |