Dark DooDad in Musca

[Hagar]

The DarkDooDad captured with FSQ106ED at F5 with QHY9 and Baader LRGB Filters.

11X 5 minute exposures of each LRGB. Captured at home in Mt Beauty over 2 nights. Seeing was not the best but it is nice and dark and there is no clouds.

Hi Res HERE (http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/displayimage.php?pid=314&fullsize=1) about 4MB

[astroron]

Nice shot there Doug:thumbsup:
Cheers

[richardo]

Man, this is a dark doo dad Doug!... try saying that with a few ales under your belt!!
Has always fascinated me how these dark objects seem to cut a path through space... I know they're very cold, dark dense clouds and block the light from stars behind but how are they formed.... any ideas Doug??

Great guiding here as I see from your full frame image...
Ahh the great Q
Great for objects like this;)

Rich

[danielsun]

Nice one Doug:thumbsup: Boy, that is a dark thick lane!

Cheers Daniel.

[Fabiomax]

Nice shoot on an nebula I did not know!
Cheers,
Fabiomax

[multiweb]

Amazing starfield. Nice and round :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Howdy doo dad Doug :P

Rather interesting shot that, it really carves a lane through the stars huh?

Nicely processed too :thumbsup:

Mike

[erick]

Nice one Doug, but it needs a mosaic? 'Tis sticking out of each side of the frame :D

Got this object on live view on an integrating video cam the other night using little CCTV lenses (My GSTAR and Ken's Samsung). Resolution just a little worse, however :P

[jjjnettie]

Some great work there Doug.

[DavidU]

A great image of an unusual subject. Nice work.

[RobF]

Certainly a great shot Doug. Thanks for showing.

[telemarker]

A rift in space! Nice shot Doug, great star colours. Have a look at a negative of the image, I think it shows some more detail in the Doodad. Top stuff :thumbsup:

Regards
Keith

[marc4darkskies]

Dat's a dapper dark doodad Doug!

Cheers, Marcus

[FlashDrive]

Interesting Dark Lanes ..... aren't they...!!

A '' wake or vortex " from a Klingon Class Millennium Cruiser maybe...!!! :D

Just Kidding .... :P .

Flash.

[leon]

Really like it Doug, just seems that a part of the universe was cut in half so to speak.

Leon

[Hagar]

Thanks for the kind comments Guy's. I must do this again but with the reducer fitted. F3.6 might just be right for this one.

Thanks.

[FlashDrive]

Just did a bit of reading in the latest March edition of Astronomy Magazine.... page49 .. shows exactly what you have photographed...They call it " Dark Nebulae " . It's a short story of Edward Emerson Barnard's life and details some of his discoveries...! ... one of which is " Dark Nebulae.

Flash.

[Paul Haese]

Nicley done Doug. Star colours in the second image are really nice.