LBN 917

Posted by dcrowson
on Tuesday, December 31, 2019
LBN 917 is an HII (according to Simbad - http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=LBN+203.50-30.15&NbIdent=1) about four degrees away from the popular IC 2118 (witch head nebula) in Eridanus. Several denser areas can also be found in the Planck Galactic Cold Clump (PGCC) catalog. I have a feeling that the combination of the IFN and HII could have led to the somewhat odd colors.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on September 26th and 27th, 2019 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/49307396417/sizes/l/
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