LBN 360 - A Rarity in 90 Hours

by astrodan

Objects in field: LBN 360, 67 Cyg, 67 sig Cyg, The star σ Cyg

Equipment: Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P, ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Integration: 90h 11m

A Premiere on AstroBin: the first dedicated close-up of the overlooked LBN 360, focusing directly on this rarely captured HII-object and this dark nebulae. While this region is usually only captured as "bycatch" or a widefield sidekick to the neighboring Dragon Nebula (Sh2-114), this framing targets the emission nebula and the dense, dark dust lanes directly. With very rare widefield exceptions…