vdB 96

[sjastro]

Visually near impossible to observe and very difficult to locate with short CCD exposures this was meant to be a 10 hr blue filter luminance exposure. Unfortunately due the a programming glitch the first 5 hours of exposure was overwritten the following night.:mad2:

Still it has come out reasonablty OK.

5 hrs L=B, 1 hr R, 1 hr G, 1 hr B ST-X10ME, BRC-250.

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sjastro/vdb96c.html

Clear skies

Steven

[spearo]

Lovely,
I don't think I've ever seen this one before, it has to be a rarely imaged target.
Came out great.
frank

[seeker372011]

interesting target and I dont believe I have seen this before either
thanks for sharing
Narayan

[Tom Davis]

Nice to see those vdB objects!

Tom

[prokyon]

Wow, a very special image!

[telecasterguru]

That's a super image and beautifully captured. Can't imagine what it would have been like with the extra 5 hours of data.

Frank

[sjastro]

Thanks for the comments.

Although vdB stands for van den Bergh, vdB might as well be "very dim body" for this and other objects in the catalogue.

Regards

Steven