Deep Sky Object in Autumn
vdB16 (Reflection Nebula in Aries)


Date & Time: Oct 23 2020, from 26:57 to 27:51 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 6 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


vdB16 / Reflection Nebula, type 4 R
R.A.03h 28m 16.0s (2000.0)
Dec.+29°47' 24" (2000.0)
Apparent Size7.4×5.2'
Real SizeN/A
Magnitude -
DistanceN/A
Other IDsLBN 746
This image shows you a small reflection nebula positioned at about 7 degrees northwest from the Pleiades in Taurus. The nebula is lying at northern border between Taurus and Aries, has a span of about 7 arc minutes.
In this field of northern Taurus and Perseus, a vast and dimmed "Taurus molecular cloud" has distributed. vdB16 is an only small part reflecting the light of 9th magnitude star in center of the nebula. You can recognize a void region including almost no stars in upper part of this image, the region corresponds to a dark nebula of B204 with a span of about 14 arc minutes.



vdB14, vdB15
vdB24

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