"DARK CLOUD COMPLEX IN AQUILA RIFT"
- Deepsky 250mm (L)RGB
- Area Constellation Aquila

A reprocessing of the data I took from my balcony in August 2021, with light polluted Bortle 7 sky. It shows the same region I posted yesterday, but as a widefield at 250mm focal length. My goal was to better bring out the fine dust nebula structures and clouds around the dark nebula complex. 

"Every dot a star" - yes, truly, that is so! Every dot of light in this image from the Milky Way shows a sun, a star, a galaxy! Our Milky Way alone is probably home to between 100 and 400 billion stars. It is assumed that each of these stars has at least one planet in its orbit, but probably more. That's just in our galaxy, a tiny dot in an unimaginably large universe :-)

Videoclip

LDN 637 is a highly segmented molecular cloud complex in the constellation Aquila, in the middle of the so-called "Aquila Rift", a dark area of the summer Milky Way that is full of dark clouds. The dense clouds are around 300 to 600 light years away from us and spread over 7 light years. Dark clouds are regions in interstellar space that are so dense that they absorb the light behind them and thus appear darker than their surroundings. LDN stands for "Lynds Dark Nebula", named after the astronomer Beverly T. Lynds, who systematically cataloged dark nebulae.

| Object : LDN673 (Dark Nebula)
| Stack RGB : 77 Lights RGB / 100 Darks / 10 Flats / 500 Bias
| EBV Tools : Pixinsight / Photoshop / Lightroom / AstraImage
| Guiding : PHD2 & ZWO-ASI120 Mono / N.I.N.A. 
| M&O : AZ-EQ6 GT Pro / Whiliam Optics Red Cat 51
| Filter : Astronomik UVIRCut L2
| Camera : Canon EOS-R astromodified / BW 250mm
| Exif LRGB : BLZ 180s per frame / UnityGain / f/5

Image processing:
mainly Pixinsight, additionally Photoshop, Lightroom, GraXpertAI, BTX Blur Terminator, Noise Terminator, Star X Terminator
Shooting, processing and development by me, in Super Luminance from RGB & RGB OSC.