Barnard 343 caught in a complete mess of red and dark nebulosity

[gorann]

After two weeks of clouds, it partly cleared and I could catch 8 hours of usable subs with my dual-RASA rig, shooting between the clouds. The moon soon came up but the NBZ filter is as usual quite good at keeping it in check unless you go for very faint objects.

There is no clear centerpiece in this image, maybe except for the dark area centrally given number 343 in Barnard's catalogue. However, there are actually quite a number of interesting details all over the image, including numerous red filaments (don't know what they are), so please zoom in.

Caught with RASA8, ASI2600MC, IDAS NBZ (dual band Ha+Oiii) filter on a Mesu 200. 98 x 5 minutes. Processed in PI and PS, including Star XTerminator.

Cheers & CS, Göran

 

Crops showing some of the red filaments intermixed with dark nebulosity (bok globules?):

 

Edited November 14, 2022 by gorann

[tomato]

You have framed a really nice vista with the arching clouds, just look at all that hydrogen…

[Catanonia]

Top drawer and amazing colours there and love the framing.

Please stop it though, makes me want another RASA8      hahahahaha

 

[gorann]

6 hours ago, tomato said:

You have framed a really nice vista with the arching clouds, just look at all that hydrogen…

Thanks Steve! Yes, we could make good use of all that hydrogen down on Earth right now😁

[gorann]

5 hours ago, Catanonia said:

Top drawer and amazing colours there and love the framing.

Please stop it though, makes me want another RASA8      hahahahaha

 

Thanks a lot! My problem is to figure out how I could fit a third RASA 8 on the rig🤣

[wimvb]

1 hour ago, gorann said:

Thanks a lot! My problem is to figure out how I could fit a third RASA 8 on the rig🤣

If it can be done with yellow tubes, it should be possible with gray tubes.

[wimvb]

1 hour ago, gorann said:

all that hydrogen

Space is still the best vacuum we know, with only an atom per cubic meter, afaIk. The reason that we see all that hydrogen is that there are a LOT of cubic meters stacked along our line of sight. Each stack literally goes on for lightyears and lightyears.

[tomato]

Yes, amazing to think of the energy required to harvest that hydrogen and yet gravity has done it countless times over, but it did take a while…

[Swoop1]

1 hour ago, wimvb said:

If it can be done with yellow tubes, it should be possible with gray tubes.

Now THAT is just showing off 😜

[wimvb]

7 hours ago, Swoop1 said:

Now THAT is just showing off 😜

T'wasn't me. (I wish.)

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[Zummerzet_Leveller]

11 hours ago, wimvb said:

If it can be done with yellow tubes, it should be possible with gray tubes.

I'd be quite nervous when balancing that lot!

Another great image to get lost in for 10mins @gorann.