Deep imaging in Hydrogen Alpha

Team members - Carl Scottish - Martin Nicholson - Lloyd Ranal - Frank Harris - Ralph Billig

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Image centered on GSC 3150:1549 at RA 20 08 03.052 and DEC +38 48 10.88

Image details - 5 x 300 seconds in hydrogen alpha, binned 3 x 3.

Field of view 83 by 123 arc minutes


Five images combined - no further processing


After digital development in MaxIm


After image stretching

Lynds Bright Nebula #208 is just to the left of center. It is somewhat larger and more complex than the catalogue suggests. There is also a patch of nebulosity, brightest around GSC 3150-3467 (20h 04m 15.242s and +38° 50' 16.04") that does not appear in SIMBAD - a new discovery?


After black/white reversal


Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.

This page was last updated on October 9th 2007.