Dark Doodad with NGC 4372

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 Dark Doodad with the globular cluster NGC 4372 located in the constellation Musca.

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

Dark Doodad with NGC 4372 annotated

The images were taken with the following equipment:

• Location: Heaven’s mirror Observatory, Australia
• Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106ED
• Focal length [mm]: 382
• Focal ratio: 3.6
• Mount: Paramount MX+
• Camera: FLI Proline 16803
• Filter: L:R:G:B
• Exposure time [min]: 160:160:160:160
• Resolution: 4.74″/px