Hello everyone, I just posted a new image of a little-known area of sky in Lupus, at the feet of Scorpion. The Lupus clouds compose one of the main low-mass star forming complexes within 200 pc of the Sun. They contain four main star forming sites, including B228 in Barnard’s catalogue pictured here, more frequently referred to as Lupus 1 in modern literature. It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region more than four billion years ago. B228 is sometime referred to as the Dark wolf nebula..
Lupus I
The exposure was quite long but in my opinion it was worth it, I find this object very fascinating.
Among the few amateur images I found on the internet, there is
this one wide field taken from Namibia by a fellow italian amateur that gives the idea of how it looks the whole area.
I hope you will like it as I do.
Clear skies
Marco
