LBN 406


LBN 406

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Location / Date

Zellerndorf, May - June 2014

Telescope / Mount / Guiding

ASA 10" Astrograph, ASA 3" Wynne Corrector
ASA DDM60, no Guiding

Camera / Exposure

Canon EOS 6D (not modified)
86 x 10min ISO 400 (14h 20min)

Processing

Theli, Fitswork, PixInsight, Photoshop

Notes

Lynds Bright Nebula (LBN) 406 is a very faint Molecular Cloud in the constellation Draco. Stellar winds have created some interesting shapes.
In the field are also several distant galaxies which shines through the dust.

Published in "Sky & Telescope" 06/2015

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