vdB 111(LBN 88) Bright Nebula in Ophiuchus

Located at: RA 17 hours 18 minutes 48 seconds, Dec +06 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 9' x 6'; Magnitude: --; Class: Reflection

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 4.1

Image:

 No filter, 125 minutes (25 x 5 minute subs), 09/02/2005

Processing:

MaxIm DL 4.5, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes:

This is the last self guided sequence before my primary drive corrector quit working (on 09/02/2005). I have been using the Track & Accumulate feature in CCDOps to image open clusters since last September (2005), until 01/19/2006, when I began taking sequences with my backup corrector