[richardo (Rich)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice work Richard very interesting image.

That looks like that dark doodad in Scorpio, bit like the elephants trunk in the northern hemisphere... Hmmm? "Dark Doodad" huh? not sure that's it's official designation

Mike

Hola Migel,
good to hear from you.
Thanks for the comments!
I sort of thought it looks like a White pointer hacking through a school of fish... what'ya think ?
Definitely in the same category as that cometary remnant that looks like a giant slug eating stars.... excuse my non astronomical descriptions & naming..

Originally Posted by glenc

That is a great image Rich.

The object is called vdBH73.
The catalogue can be found here:
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/218

Sort of looked at the catalogue, but vdBH73 isn't located at the correct Ra.
Don't think this is the one.

Originally Posted by iceman

Wow Rich, what a lovely image. Looks like a large image scale!

The image background appears to have quite a bit of red/magenta, that's the only flaw I can find in a beautiful image.

Thanks Ice man,
I think these areas in star fields as dense as this, there are lots of dust and emission represented.
The few Wide field images I've seen on this object show emission radiating out from the dark column's HII ridges/ edges.
My G2v calibration hasn't let me down so far with my ratios but as I mentioned, I would have liked to have had pure skies but my blue frames suffered a little I think.
Would have liked much more colour data but as usual time and the moon have played its part.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Excellent result Rich..beautiful!
Its called the dark Tower neb as I remember looking at a image of it last year thinking that will make a interesting target!
can`t find any other info on it but!
nice work and thanks for reminding me of it again!

opps didn`t see Glens reference too it..shall have a look!
cheers Gary

Cheers Gaz,
just saw the the couple of images Glen put links to and Dark Column it is then I guess...
Just wish some one would name the blessed thing and be done with it.
I think "dark Shark Nebula" sounds better though.

Originally Posted by glenc

Paul has a picture of it at:
http://www.skylab.com.au/pmsa/The%20Dark%20Tower.html
and there is a B&W image at:
http://www.celestialimage.com/page211.html

Thanks Glen.

And thanks all for taking a look and commenting.

All the best
Rich