An obscure chunk of dust (SH2-63)

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

..obscure in the sense of little known, actually this object is remarkably bright as dusty patch, which does not explain the very little amount of amateur images of this object. I discovered it by chance while I wandered onto the plates of digitized palomar survey, looking for attractive molecular clouds with a size suitable for my instrument.
Sharples 63 is part of high latitude molecular cloud MBM 159, which is located at a distance of about 220 pc and may form part of the Aquila rift. This bit of sky is just few degrees west of the Barnard's Galaxy.

Sharpless 63

This is a simple LRGB (there is no trace of Ha in the area) although quite deep in luminance. Certainly not a spectacular object but still quite interesting as evidence of how much dust is visible near the Milky Way About 13 hours of data with my usual setup.
Hope you will like it

Clear skies
Marco

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Another great image, Marco! something different-not aware of it before.

[LewisM]

I love the obscure! Great stuff

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

That looks really cool Marco, I can see how it could be an extension of the Barnard Galaxy region. I was going to download and rotate your image to see what it looked like I think I can see two ghosts (people under a sheet) when rotated 90deg anticlockwise .. but your site prevents download of the image...sneeeky

Great job!

Mike

[blink138 (Pat)]

wow it looks like its melting!
pat

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice image of an interesting object, Marco!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Nice Marco!

Looks like contemporary art work.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Peter.M]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

That looks really cool Marco, I can see how it could be an extension of the Barnard Galaxy region. I was going to download and rotate your image to see what it looked like I think I can see two ghosts (people under a sheet) when rotated 90deg anticlockwise .. but your site prevents download of the image...sneeeky

Great job!

Mike

I can just imagine you turning your head upside down to see them! I shouldnt mention but if you spam right click and tell your browser to stop the page sending you that popup (firefox asks you if you want to prevent it) then it will let you download to your hearts content.

I love your images Marco every one you post is beautifully displayed, noise free, and interesting in content.

[DJT (David)]

Great image Marco. Am still ploughing through the usual suspects learning as I go so seeing the off beat stuff is great as it gives another imaging path to aim for later on.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

That's a beautiful piece of dust and very well captured as usual. I too can recognise how it appears to feature similar patterns as near Barnard's Galaxy.
Great work Marco

[multiweb (Marc)]

That sure looks faint. Very nicely processed.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Great image Marco! Very interesting - I haven't seen this before.

[dvj (John)]

very keul Marco!

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Ciao Marco,

a interesting shot never seen before. Congrats.

All the best,
Leo

[naskies (Dave)]

Looks great, Marco. Very spooky!

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by naskies

Looks great, Marco. Very spooky!

Thanks Dave, definitely a gosthy patch

Originally Posted by Leonardo70

Ciao Marco,

a interesting shot never seen before. Congrats.

All the best,
Leo

Thanks Leo!

Originally Posted by dvj

very keul Marco!

Thanks John

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Great image Marco! Very interesting - I haven't seen this before.

Thanks David, yes, it is quite an overlooked bit of sky

Originally Posted by multiweb

That sure looks faint. Very nicely processed.

Thanks Marc, in reality it is not that faint, already 20/30 mins of exposures are enough to show it very clearly, at least from dark locations

Originally Posted by SkyViking

That's a beautiful piece of dust and very well captured as usual. I too can recognise how it appears to feature similar patterns as near Barnard's Galaxy.
Great work Marco

Thanks Rolf

Originally Posted by DJT

Great image Marco. Am still ploughing through the usual suspects learning as I go so seeing the off beat stuff is great as it gives another imaging path to aim for later on.

Thanks David, this may be just another target to shoot at when you have imagined a bit of the the usual bunch

Originally Posted by Peter.M

I can just imagine you turning your head upside down to see them! I shouldnt mention but if you spam right click and tell your browser to stop the page sending you that popup (firefox asks you if you want to prevent it) then it will let you download to your hearts content.

I love your images Marco every one you post is beautifully displayed, noise free, and interesting in content.

Thanks Peter

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Nice Marco!

Looks like contemporary art work.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin, is the whole sky that is art work, evergreen art I would add

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice image of an interesting object, Marco!

Thanks Rick

Originally Posted by blink138

wow it looks like its melting!
pat

Thanks Pat

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

That looks really cool Marco, I can see how it could be an extension of the Barnard Galaxy region. I was going to download and rotate your image to see what it looked like I think I can see two ghosts (people under a sheet) when rotated 90deg anticlockwise .. but your site prevents download of the image...sneeeky

Great job!

Mike

Hehe, thanks mike, this would be a nice target for Halloween then

Originally Posted by LewisM

I love the obscure! Great stuff

The dark side of the .. matter Thanks Lewis

Originally Posted by Larryp

Another great image, Marco! something different-not aware of it before.

Thanks Larry!

Clear skies
Marco

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Stunning work! You captured that faint object excellently.

Werner

[atalas]

Nice work Marco.