IC 348 and Barnard's Dark Nebulae

Exposure time: 162.5 minutes (13x 750s) Processing: Nebulosity (pre-processing, stacking & DDP); Adobe Photoshop CS4 (post-processing) Lens/telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED (4.2") quadruplet ED refractor at f/3.6 Camera: QHY8 one-shot colour CCD (gain: 0, offset: 115) Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO Guidescope: Vixen 70/400 mm + ST-4 SQM: 21.30 magnitude per square arcsecond Location: Etoile St. Cyrice, Hautes-Alpes, France Date: January 15 - 16, 2010 Notes: This area of the sky was one of the first to be photographically catalogued by E.E. Barnard (plate 3).

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