The Dark Tower in Scorpius

[Ryderscope]

Identified as a cometary globule, this dark nebula in Scorpius makes for an interesting deep sky target. Located about 5,000 light years from Earth, I like to think that the photons of light captured by my camera have spent all that time travelling through space just to be finally captured by my camera sensor :). Whilst it does seem to be a well imaged object, the only catalogue reference that I could find was a listing in the "Atlas of Galactic Nebula" as entry GN 16.43.7.01. I couldn't find any reference of it with the 'usual' CG numbers for cometary globules. If others have additional information in this regard I would be happy to hear about it.

This data set was captured in May last year which shows how far behind I have been on my processing activities. This brings me almost up to date now with one more data set in the queue ready and waiting :). This data set has been captured with my TSA120/QSI683 CCD combination and is comprised of approximately 21 hours of data with LRGB and Ha filters.

Link to Astrobin post here. (https://astrob.in/ogt5t5/0/)

Clear skies,
Rodney

[strongmanmike]

Wow 21hrs huh?.. just sitting there, waiting?? talk about patience :eyepop:...coooool :D

Really nice rendition Rod, with some lovely, natural looking, details in the head of the tower there, well worth the wait :thumbsup:

Mike

[Ryderscope]

Yes, it does seem crazy to have a perfectly good data set waiting there unattended :P Not for the want of other imaging related projects of course as many other data sets have been captured, and processed, in the mean time. I only have one set of data now in my processing queue so shall be getting into that shortly :D

[Startrek]

Rodney,
Another fantastic image , colour and subtle detail is superb
I must attempt an LRGB Ha from my South Coast Obs
Well done for effort alone
Thanks for running detail on the capture as well

Cheers
Martin

[Ryderscope]

Thanks Martin, definitely worth a shot from your dark site. It should be coming back into a suitable altitude soon as well.

[Dave882]

Great work! I imagine there wouldn’t be a lot showing in the individual subs- you’ve done really well to frame this so well and reveal so much!

[Ryderscope]

Thanks David. There is not much to see in the RGB subs but the area is quite rich in Ha.