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 This
            complex region of dark and light is from interstellar dust in
            the area of the star Nu Scorpii. The blue nebula IC4592 is extremely
            faint - requiring four stacked deep schmidt images to bring to
            this level of visibility. To the left in the brown dust is a
            blue island of nebulosity known as IC4601, it too is the illuminated
            portion of a larger more vast dust complex. The illuminated brown
            cloud to the left of IC4601 is Barnard 41 - a DARK nebula. So
            is the general area to the upper left of Nu Scorpii, this is
            Barnard 40. This shows deep images such as this will often reveal
            a light colored component to apparently a visual absence of stars
            in a given area. 
Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  4x8mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  40 F
Processing: Photoshop, PixInsight Pro.
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