B 148 (LDN 1076) and B 149 Dark Nebulae in Cepheus
Center of field at approximately: RA 20 hours 48 minutes 16 seconds, Dec +59 degrees 35 minutes 34 seconds
Size: 3.0' and ~2.0'; Magnitude: -- and --; Class: 5 C and (2 C?)
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
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, 420 minutes (42 x 10 minute subs) 05/28/29/30 & 06/4/2010; seeing 1.6-4.1 FWHM per CCDStack |
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| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.6.3800.24688, 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: | My software (Megastar v 5.0.12) lists B 148 at 20h 47m 48s, +59d 38m
00s.
Coordinates for B 148 are 20h 48m 17.9s, +59d 38m 24s ... from the CDS (Aladin previewer) ... also, the CDS lists B 149 at 20h 48m 59.9s, +59d 30m 59s, about 11.2 minutes SSE of B 148. Chart 47 from "A Photographic Atlas of Selected Region of The Milky Way" (Barnard's online atlas) shows the position of these two dark nebulae. Description from the on-line atlas:
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Very
small, round, indefinite, diam. 3´ 