Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  HD67223  ·  HD67500  ·  LBN 727  ·  LBN 732  ·  LBN 733
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LBN 732 - Dust in Ursa Major, Monty Chandler
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Collectively they make up part of an extremely faint molecular cloud at the head of Ursa Major. There are a few of these scattered throughout the area.  Most are close enough to the M81 group that it wouldn't surprise me if they were all one huge cloud.

An internet search turned up very little information on these objects.  In fact, I was only able to find two amateur images. 

This thing is dim. People in the hobby like to throw that word around a lot but I'm not kidding. You're looking at 30 hours of data  taken from my bortle 4 sky and I still feel I haven't resolved all that is available.  With the Esprit 120ED at 840mm, I could easily have gone over 50 hours but to be honest it's not an interesting enough target to spend more than the 5 nights I did on it. 

In the end though, I'm relatively happy with it and though it doesn't have that "attention grabber" quality it definitely earns points for being uncommon and faint, very faint.

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LBN 732 - Dust in Ursa Major, Monty Chandler