From Barnard 150 to NGC6946 - wide and deep

[gorann]

Inspired by @Xiga recent excellent image of Barnard 150, I had another go at my RASA8 data from September 2020 now using a starless approach. Like Xiga I find this area of nebulosity quite colourful. This is nr 150 in Barnard Catalogue of Dark Markings in the Sky and is usually presented as a quite dark, even black, nebula. However, it is clear that Barnard 150 is far from black, but quite colourful and part of a larger area of faint nebulosity including some blue reflection nebulae. A bonus in this image is the grand design spiral galaxy NGC6946, aka The Fireworks Galaxy.

Materials & Methods: RASA8 with ASI2600MC (no filter) on a NEQ6pro. 19 x 10 min, so about 3 hours. Processed in PI and PS, including StarXTerminator and Noise XTerminator.

Cheers, Göran

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2022 by gorann

[symmetal]

Very impressive Göran. There is more of interest and colour in the dust than the 'little' galaxy, in the more wide field view. 😊

Alan

[gorann]

50 minutes ago, symmetal said:

Very impressive Göran. There is more of interest and colour in the dust than the 'little' galaxy, in the more wide field view. 😊

Alan

Thanks Alan! It is just difficult to grasp that the galaxy is so much much much further away🤔

[Xiga]

Woah, that's deep Goran! I love the deep brown colour in your dust, and i really like the areas of blue reflection nebulosity you've picked up. Very nice! 

[gorann]

5 hours ago, Xiga said:

Woah, that's deep Goran! I love the deep brown colour in your dust, and i really like the areas of blue reflection nebulosity you've picked up. Very nice! 

Thanks a lot Ciarán, much appreciated! This one was really rewarding to re-process with StarXT to find what was really there behind the stars🙂

Here is the original version from 2020 before I had starless processing: https://www.astrobin.com/qm795u/D/