BARNARD 252

From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was data from the dark nebula Barnard 252 located in the constellation Scorpius.

Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:

The images were taken with the following equipment (CHI-1 CCD, Telescope Live):

• Location: El Sauce Observatory, Chile
• Telescope: Planwave CDK24
• Focal length [mm]: 3962
• Focal ratio: 6.5
• Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250
• Camera: FLI Proline 9000
• Filter: L:R:G:B
• Exposure time [min]: 250:220:160:170
• Resolution: 1.24″/px