This is the new project by the ‘Altaïr of Atlas Astrophotographers’ team, which focuses on the galaxy NGC7223 and its surroundings. This zone is located on the edge of the Milky Way and contains a large variety of objects: lots of dark dust, IFNs, hydrogen nebulosities covering the background and an impressive number of galaxies further away in the universe.
This field has been made in 2 tiles in order to have the main molecular cloud in its entirety passing diagonally across the image. At its extremity, with a brown gas color, is an intense zone where new stars are born. Faint hydrogen is present everywhere in the background (in red) and reveals all its beauty after around thirty hours of exposure under the clear sky of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.
As soon as we saw our final image, it didn’t take long for our imagination to catch sight of a shape that will be familiar to all fans of the Harry Potter saga: a detractor!
The shape of the silhouette, the head, the lower body and the fog that surrounds it: everything coincides to make us call this dark arm of gas in the Milky Way (LBN420), which has no common name, the Detractor nebula…
Exifs and equipment :
– Ha: 195×600,″(32h 30′)
– L: 259×180,″(12h 57′)
– B: 246×60,″(4h 6′)
– G: 246×60,″(4h 6′)
– R: 234×60,″(3h 54′)
– Total: 57h 33
– Takahashi FSQ85EDX
– LRGB H Optolong Astronomy Filter
– Player One Astronomy Poseidon-M
– Pixinsight & Photoshop