May 2001 Image of the
Month
Zeta Scorpii Nebula
2@ 5 min. luminance w/
ST-8e May 23, 2000
RGB exposure is 150 sec.
each at medium resolution
I found out about this
object in David Malin's Invisible Universe. Interestingly,
it is unnamed dark nebulosity situated about 2 degrees west and
north of Zeta Scorpii at the bottom of the scorpion's tail. At
-41 degrees declination seeing is very choppy and this is a low
contrast object. North is up.
RGB combined in CCDOPS
for Windows, Luminance sharpening in CCDSHARP and LRGB
combining in Quantum Image