B 86 (LDN 93) and NGC 6520 (Cr 361) Dark Nebula and Open Cluster in Sagittarius

Center of field at approximately: RA 18 hours 03 minutes 11 seconds, Dec -27 degrees 51 minutes 48 seconds

Size: 5.0' and 6.0'; Magnitude: -- and 7.6; Class:  5 Ir G and I 2 r n

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector
Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.53
Image:

 Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 150 minutes (15 x 10 minute subs), 07/15/2006
Processing:

 CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0
Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)
Notes:

This is currently the lowest field I have imaged from my home... it just barley cleared the top of the tree to my South (image shot in 2006 ... I can no long image this low in 2009). Also, this is my first sequence processed with CCDStack ... sort of a practice image

This description from the on-line Edward Emerson Barnard "A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of The Milky Way":

 
86
 α(2000)18h 03m 02s, δ(2000) -27° 53´
Galactic Coordinates 3, -3
Diam. 5´, several small stars in it, the cluster NGC 6520 close E, CD-27°12302 (7.4 mag) on NW edge. For the visual discovery of this object see Astronomische Nachrichten 108, 370, 1884.