Barnard 312 in Scutum

[Martin Pugh]

Good evening

here is a 2 panel mosaic of dark nebula Barnard 312 in Scutum.

You can barely separate the stars there are so many as Scutum 'sits' in the Milky Way, but this nebula must be so dense that the star population becomes almost negligible. I can only guess that the stars that you do see in front of Barnard 312 are in the foreground.

Details on the page as well as a link to a much larger version.

https://www.martinpughastrophotograp...e#/barnard312/

cheers and clear skies
Martin

[gregbradley]

That's a fantastic image Martin. Love that one. It looks like a giant goldfish in profile. Love the star colours.

Greg.

[DJT (David)]

Really nice Martin. Those stars are so sharp and as perGreg, great colours.!

That's scope is an absolute light bucket!

[Atmos (Colin)]

Very nice Martin So many stars!

[Martin Pugh]

Thank you!

[RickS (Rick)]

It's like the Black Pudding from Ripping Yarns that was so black that even the white bits were black

[multiweb (Marc)]

The layers of stars keep going in and around the black dust. Very nice close up.