NGC 4372
In the direction of the southern constellation of Musca we find the "Dark Doodad Nebula", a molecular cloud, so dense with dust that it obscures the stars behind it, this type of nebulae is the place of reproduction of stars and planets, the distance has been estimated at around 700 light years, while NGC 4362, the star cluster below is located around our galaxy at about 20,000 light years.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
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Location
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Location
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
Date of observation
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Date of observation
May 8, 2021
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Processing
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Processing
PixInsight 1.8.9 (with Autointegrate.jr), AsroArt 8.0, PaintShop Pro 2023
Credits
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