B147 (LDN 853) Dark Nebula in Cygnus
Located at: RA 20 hours 06 minutes 42 seconds, Dec +35 degrees 22 minutes 35 seconds
Size: 11' x 1.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: 1 Ir ?
North is up

West to the right
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8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
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| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
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| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 540 minutes (54 x 10 minute subs), 07/29/30/31/2010; 1.8-3.1 FWHM per CCDStack |
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| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.10.3848.16825, Photoshop 7.0 |
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| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
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| Notes: |
'B 147' is centered in this image. Other dark lanes in this area are LDN 852 and LDN 856 ... This area may be collectively known as the "Fish on the Platter", a large (360') area also known in one of my software packages as B 144 and LDN 857, with a classification of 1 Ir. See Michael Stecker's image of the "Fish on the Platter". This field was re-shot for better stellar images ... see 2007 image here. The CDS places "B 147" at 20h 06m 59s, +35d 12m 33s, about at the lower middle center of my image. This description from the on-line Edward Emerson Barnard "A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of The Milky Way":
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