NGC 1966 (New Image)

[sjastro]

A lesser known nebula in the LMC.

180m L=R, 60m R, 60m G, 60m B, ST-10XME and BRC-250 scope.

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sjastro/ngc1966nnc.html

There appears to be part of an emission/relection nebula in the lower right hand corner of the image.

I'm not familiar with any reflection nebulae in the LMC.
Does anyone know of it's identity?

Regards

Steven

[TrevorW]

Steve very dim whats the stats on this one dist vb etc

[strongmanmike]

Lovely Image Steve

I would think that nebula in the lower right is just glowing blue-green from OIII not Rayleigh scattering..? :shrug:

Mike

[AlexN]

Very nice Steve! The background star field is amazing!

Top shot!

[sjastro]

Thanks very much Alex.



On reflection(;)) you're probably correct Mike. Looks like Henize 76 in the SMC.



Not much info Trevor. Distance 50,000 parsecs.

Bright (emission and/or reflection) nebula in Dorado

Dreyer's description (http://74.125.153.132/des.html): pB, R, pslbM, 3rd of 4, in pL, irr Cl
Cross Identifications (http://74.125.153.132/cid.html): GC 1171, h 2868, Dun 136. .
Right Ascension: 5 : 26.8 (hours : minutes)
Declination: -68 : 49 (degrees : minutes)
Apparent Magnitude:
Apparent Diameter: 13. (arc minutes)

Regards

Steven

[seeker372011]

nice image-this must be one very faint fuzzy

[Lester]

Top image Steven. That scope can really resolve some faint nebula.

[Hagar]

Very nice and as usual something quite obscure. Love looking at them.

Thanks

[CoolhandJo]

Massive star field! Excellent image...

[sjastro]

Thanks Narayan, Lester, Doug and Paul.

Clear skies

Steven