Sunday, Sep 22, 2024

LBN 438 is a galactic dark nebula located in the southern part of the Lacerta constellation, 2400 light-years away. It is illuminated by interstellar radiation known as Extended Red Emission (ERE). Despite being part of the Lynds catalogue of bright nebulae, it is very faint. Distant galaxies many millions of light-years away can be seen in the lower part of this image. Photograph taken with my partner @jalvarez_bcn over several nights in July, he and his team took the RGB and Ha parts, I took the luminance part with my team Equipment and technical data: For RGB and Ha, TS 80 photoline, 0.8x TS reducer, 2600mm camera, zwo 7x2" wheel, astronomik Deep Sky filters, Pegasus focuser, Warp Astron WD20 mount For luminance, Askar Fra 600, 0.75x Fra reducer, 1600mm asi camera, zwo mini 5x1.25" wheel, astronomik D3 filter, RB Focus Merlin focuser, RB Focus gaiusS, eq6 pro mount, 9x50 + qhy5llL finder 325x120s L 60x300s Ha 175x60s R 170x60s G 156x60s B Adding more than 25h of exposure Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop We hope you like it!!!!