The Lupus 3 Cloud (Bernes 149)

at the border of Scorpius and Lupus

The Lupus 3 Cloud (Bernes 149)
Éder Iván
Bernes 149 + HH78
Herbig Haro 78 and GN 16.05.2

This Lupus 3 molecular cloud located at the border of Scorpius and Lupus constellation, lies about 500 light years away. The bright part of the dark cloud is the blue reflection nebula called GN 16.05.2 or Bernes 149.

A lot of protostars, young stars and stellar objects were found inside the cloud by the astronomers on infrared wavelength. They found many Herbig Haro obcects as well. One of them, HH78 is visible on this image too. Look at the red asymmetric dot in the dark area on the cropped image (click for enlargement).

Image details

Instrument:
200/750 Newton, 3" Wynne (710mm effective focal length)
Camera:
QSI 683 WSG-8, LRGB filters
Mount:
SkyWatcher EQ6 + Boxdörfer DynoStar
Guiding:
Off axis, Lacerta-MGen autoguider + Mgen2Maxim
Exposure time, filters:
6 hours 40 minutes total, LRGB filters
Location, date:
Hakos astrofarm, Namibia (1835m); 2014. May
Observing conditions:
Transparency: 9/10, Seeing: 7/10
Processing:
ImagesPlus, Registar, Pixinsight LE, Photoshop

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