17 Aug 2022
One of the prominent clouds in the Lupus dark clouds complex. Known as Barnard 228, Lupus 1, Lupus Wolf, or The Dark Wolf. One of the nearest star-forming regions along with Ophiuchus, Taurus-Auriga, Corona Australis, and Chamaeleon with one of the richest associations of T Tauri stars (very young stars with mass same as our sun). The distance ranges from 326 to 978 ly away in the constellation of Lupus.
LRGB 8h 45m (17:17:20:17x300s, 7:5:4:1x600s) from AUS-2 a Takahashi FSQ-106ED (106 mm) F3.6 telescope with FLI PL16083 camera and Astrodon LRGB 2GEN filters, situated in Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Australia. Part of telescope.live network. Taken on multiple dates May-July 2022.
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B228
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