As I have mentioned before, although I was always going to hit some of the bright colourful show stopper objects and areas, fields of very faint dust were also in my sights to hit with this remarkable bit of Nippon glass
So, this is a weird isolated bit of molecular dust in Musca about 700 light years away and affectionately refereed to by a term apparently first coined by Denis di Cicco of US S&T when he was in Australia in 1986 to observe Halley's Comet...
The transparency wasn't on my side either night when capturing this set as we have a lot of burning off going on around the ACT at the moment and while this has given us some wonderful red sunsets lately it is not good for trying to capture fields of faint molecular dust....
Information and image capture details are under the image
The Dark Doodad (click on image to enlarge and look around)
and a bigger one to surf around is
HERE
Hope you like
....looks like Lewis's pencil....
Mike