Into the void...

[Avdhoeven]

Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula (RA: 20h18m57.4s DEC: +40º 40′ 01″). Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image.

This region is very rich of dark and emission nebulae. On the image also VanDenBergh 130, a reflection nebula in this region, can be seen. LBN234 is an emission nebula glowing with hydrogen and sulphur.

Barnard 344 was described by Barnard himself as: “Dusky spot; long; like an arrowhead, pointed SW; small star at NE end”.

This image is a combination of narrowband imagery with RGB images taken during a number of nights in July 2013.

I was not totally happy with the rgb image alone, but this combination brought out much more detail than I expected.

Telescope: TEC-140
Camera: QSI-583
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ-6

H-alpha: 6 x 1800 s (3nm astrodon)
SII: 3 x 1800 s (3nm astrodon)
OIII: 4 x 1800 s (3nm astrodon)
RGB: (4,4,4) x 600 s (astrodon TrueRGB)

Total exposure time: 8.5 hours

[SnakeyJ]

Stunning - like this a lot!   Considerable amount of time and work in this, but no doubt the end result was worth the toil.

[WaveSoarer]

Very nice image. Very rich colours.

[andyman]

Cracking image thanks for posting

[swag72]

What a super image - So much to look at and admire. The colours are spot on. A real treat

[fwm891]

Superb image - jpg doesn't do it justice.