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        LBN758
       Reflection Nebula in Perseus
          RA 03h 40m 25s  Dec: +32 07' 07" Distance ~1000 ly

Location & Date
Backyard, Abbott Observatory- Long Island, NY, September & October 2023
Telescope
Orion ED80 F/7 APO, Moonlite focuser, iOptron GEM45G, Pegasus Falcon rotator
Image scale 2.54 arcsec/pixel
Camera
SBIG ST-2000XM
Baader  Ha L R G B  filters
CCD temp -10°C
Exposures
Ha - 6x10m  L-16x3m  Red- 16 x 3m  Green - 16 x 3m  Blue- 26 x 3m  Bin 1x1  per panel
Planning & Acquisition
Sequence Generator Pro Mosaic planning - 4 panels

Processing
Astro Pixel Processor -  Calibration, mosaic assembly, LRGB combine
Adobe PS - Ha addition to R
RC-Astro Star XTerminator, Noise Xterminator
ProDigital - Star glow

This is a 4-panel mosaic


Wikepedia-

LBN758, part of IC348, is a star-forming region in the constellation Perseus located about 1,000 light years from the Sun. It consists of nebulosity and an associated 2-million-year-old cluster of roughly 400 stars within an angular diameter of 20". The most massive stars in the cluster are the binary star system BD+31°643, which has a combined spectral class of B5. Based upon infrared observations using the Spitzer Space Telescope, about half of the stars in the cluster have a circumstellar disk, of which 60% are thick or primordial disks.

The age of this cluster has allowed three low mass brown dwarfs to be discovered. These objects lose heat as they age, so they are more readily discovered while they are still young. New measurements in 2023 by the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed these to be the smallest known free-floating brown dwarfs, with the lightest weighing just three to four times the mass of Jupiter.


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