The Fenrir Nebula
This is not this object's official name. It's designation is SL 17 and it's a dark nebula in the constellation of Scorpius near to Gum55 and The Dark Tower. After the first deep image of it by Paul Haese, a New Zealand astroimager Rolf Olsen noticed that it bears a striking resemblance to some depictions of the monster wolf in Norse mythology - Fenrir
This is an 11 hour LHaRGB image (90, 300, 90, 90, 90 minutes). 30 min Ha and 15 min LRGB subs.
FOV is 58.4 x 72.9 arcmins @ 1.67 arcsec/pixel.
Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F7.3 (FL=1095mm) on a Paramount ME with SBIG STL 11000M camera.
The Fenrir Nebula
This is not this object's official name. It's designation is SL 17 and it's a dark nebula in the constellation of Scorpius near to Gum55 and The Dark Tower. After the first deep image of it by Paul Haese, a New Zealand astroimager Rolf Olsen noticed that it bears a striking resemblance to some depictions of the monster wolf in Norse mythology - Fenrir
This is an 11 hour LHaRGB image (90, 300, 90, 90, 90 minutes). 30 min Ha and 15 min LRGB subs.
FOV is 58.4 x 72.9 arcmins @ 1.67 arcsec/pixel.
Takahashi TOA-150 refractor @ F7.3 (FL=1095mm) on a Paramount ME with SBIG STL 11000M camera.