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Sandqvist 141 (Mus)
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March 19., 2015, Astrofarm at the Hacienda los Andes, Chile |
Exposure/
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Canon: 26 x 300 seconds |
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DoubleShooter on AP Mach1 |
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Guiding: Lodestar attached to a 61mm-finder, PHD,
focusing: Robofocus and FocusMax,
image acquisition: Nebulosity 3.2, conducted by Horia
calibration and processing: PixInsight 1.8 |
The dark nebula Sandqvist 141 in tiny constellation Musca (the flie) was one of my most esteemed targets in the southern skies both visually and photographically, since I read Dennis diChicco's account of first "detecting" and naming the "Dark Doodad" in the Australian Outback many years ago.
In the same frame you find the main stars of the flie, the globular cluster NGC 4372, strongly reddened by the dark whisps of the doodad, the smaller but more compact globular NGC 4833 (top) and the wide open cluster H6 near Alpha and Beta Muscae.
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© Friedhelm Hübner, last revision: 03.12.2023