Barad-dûr, also known as
the Dark Tower, was the chief fortress of Sauron, on the Plateau of Gorgoroth in Mordor. Known in Black Speech as Lugbúrz, the Eye of Sauron kept watch over Middle-earth from its highest tower.
I was beset with a camera glitch on a rare clear but, cold night in country Victoria. Resolved now, so there was less data than I hoped, anyway I'm pretty happy with the resulting image from just 3.5 hrs data.
Thanks again to my Astro buddy 'Blue' for hosting my scope on his rural property, and for his tech assistance & troubleshooting the camera issue.
In silhouette against a crowded star field toward the constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40 light-years across.
Known as a cometary globule, the swept-back cloud, extending from the lower left to the head (top of the tower) right and above centre, is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from the OB association of very hot stars in NGC 6231, off the right edge of the scene. That energetic ultraviolet light also powers the globule's bordering reddish glow of hydrogen gas.
Hot stars embedded in the dust can be seen as bluish reflection nebulae. This dark tower, NGC 6231, and associated nebulae are about 5,000 light-years away.
(Text borrowed from APOD)
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...or even what's (usually) in one 
we brought in our wives to see why we're being so loud & silly, and they naturally joined in too! 
