In the top right of this image and located in Sagittarius, Barnards Galaxy or NGC 6822, is a barred irregular
galaxy about 1.6 Million light years away. It is part of our local group of galaxies and relatively small at
just 7000 light years diameter. It has prominent HII and OIII emission nebulae and although often not revealed
in images, NGC 6822 also sits behind an extensive foreground field of faint Milky Way cirrus dust. The strange
ghostly feature lower left in this image is Sharpless 63 which is much closer to us at 700 light years and is
part of the extensive molecular cloud MBM 159.

Takahashi FSQ106EDX4
FLI Proline 16803, CFW-5-7, Robofocus
LHaOIIIRGB = 360,75,75,60,60,60 = 11.5 hrs total exposure (bin 1X1)
New Deep-Sky RGB Astronomik filters
-30C chip temp, dark frames and flats (using Aurora Flat Field Panel) applied
Focal length 530mm, FOV = 4deg X 4deg
Image scale 3.5"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar

Comments
Data collected over 2 nights, 2 and 6 August 2019

Equipment setup:

https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/168910433

Some links to equipment used to take this image:

StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment

http://www.sxccd.com/products

Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:

http://www.flicamera.com/

Astro Shop (Aus)

http://www.astroshop.com.au/

Astro-Elecronic FS2 scope GOTO controller:

http://www.astro-electronic.de/

Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:

http://www.astronomik.com/en/home

http://www.gerdneumann.net/

MSB Software & Astroart 5

http://www.msb-astroart.com/

Catseye Collimation

http://www.catseyecollimation.com/

STAR Atlas:PRO planetarium software:

http://www.staratlaspro.com/