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.
Clear skies,
Rodney