Finding the Dragonfish Nebula with Goto Mount

[Millsy (Andrew)]

Hi All

Wondering if someone can assist
I want to capture an image of the Dragonfish Nebula in the Crux constellation as it looks really cool from the images I've seen.

One problem, it doesn't have a NGC number or any other that I can find. This is a bit of a pain, I could visually find it but thats a bit of stuffing around. Tried typing in the name to stellarium but it doesn't recognise it & I'm sure without a code, Asiair won't be able to find & centre it either.

Any ideas would be welcome, short of finding another target ( Running Chicken is close by).

Cheers
Milsey.

[bojan]

Find image, send it to Astrometry and use plate solver to obtain coordinates.


BTW.. a bit of googling and the result is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfish_Nebula

[Outcast (Carlton)]

Celestial co-ordinates as follows:

RA:12h 11m 27.5s
DEC: −62° 55′ 10″

You should be able to enter those co-ords & 'goto' once entered.. might then just need a little tweaking to centre it...

I note that everything I read on this nebula is that all the images that exist are taken using Infra Red... I understand it is not visible in the normal light spectrum...

So, you may need an IR capable camera to capture it...

[Millsy (Andrew)]

Thx Guys. Much appreciated and always deliver.
Monochrome camera and IR Pass filter is the idea..

Could be married to RGB images as well I guess ? Who knows what I will get ? Finding it first using the below and see what we get..