Wallpaper author:
Dominic Gareau
10 Feb 2026
LDN 1089
LDN 1089 drifts quietly through a rich field of interstellar dust, where faint reflection light and delicate molecular clouds weave together across the darkness of space. Subtle blue wisps glow around young stars while deeper brown filaments trace the hidden structure of the galaxy, revealing regions shaped by gravity, radiation, and time.
Wide fields like this remind us that the universe is not only made of brilliant nebulae and blazing stars, but also of fragile, nearly invisible dust — the raw material from which future stars and planets will one day emerge.
Dataset from which the image was processed
LDN 1089
7 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Integrated Flux Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................QHY 600M
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 308 Dec 63.5
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Spain
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................10 Aug 2024 - 27 Sept 2024
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 300 | 2h | 24 |
| Red | 300 | 2h | 24 |
| Green | 300 | 2h | 24 |
| Blue | 300 | 2h | 24 |
| Halpha | 300 | 2h | 24 |