A made a series of Mars images, and at the end stopped because the seeing looked like worsening. The image was jumping around.
To my surprise, after stacking all series, actually the last images turned out to be the sharpest.
Mars on February 16
LBN628 near Polaris
This is a classic LBN object, ‘Lynds’ Bright Nebula”. The Lynds’ Catalog of Bright Nebulae.
I call it the ‘Salamander’ 🙂 you can see a Salamander-like creature unwrapping itself from the dust clouds. A clear Salamander head, and the fore- and back paws stick out
What is bright about it? it’s disputable. ‘Bright’ should be read as opposed to Dark Nebula (LDN). But these interstellar dust and molecular cloud type of nebula are pretty dark. They reflect the light from stars.
This image was obtained in Meldert (Drogenberg) on November 28th & in Grandpré November 29 (mono) and in Grandpré on February 1 and 2 (color).
Equipment: Esprit 120 @ F/7 ZWO ASI2600MC About 10 hours on a GM1000 mount no guiding.
Another version with APP and Photoshop
