Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster
Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster

Michael Sidonio: The Dark Doodad in Musca Poster

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    Michael Sidonio, also known as "Strongmanmike," is a well-known Australian amateur astronomer and astrophotographer with a background in strength athletics. He studied astronomy at Dickson College and worked at the Canberra Observatory for over a decade. After retiring from strongman competitions in 2005, Michael focused on astronomy and astrophotography. His work has been featured in various exhibitions worldwide and has won numerous awards.

    Michael has made significant contributions to astronomy research, including discovering a galaxy 11 million light-years away. His astrophotography is displayed at Australia's National Science and Technology Centre in Canberra. Michael recently completed the construction of the highest astronomical observatory in Australia, located in the Tinderry Mountains.

    The Dark Doodad in Musca by Michael Sidonio

    The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, in the constellation Musca, The Fly.

    The dusty cosmic cloud is seen against rich star fields just south of the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees the Dark Doodad is joined in this wide field scene by globular star cluster NGC 4372.

    NGC 4372 is located in the more distant halo of our Milky Way Galaxy, a background object some 20,000 light-years away and only by chance along our line-of-sight to the Dark Doodad.

    The Dark Doodad belongs to the Musca molecular cloud and is around 700 light-years distant and over 30 light-years long.

    Photo details & setup

    Data collected over two nights on 17 and 23 April 2018, average seeing, poor transparency

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    • Takahashi FSQ106EDX4
    • FLI Proline 16803, CFW-5-7, Robofocus
    • LRGB = 330 70 70 70min = 9hrs 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: Starlight Xpress Lodestar

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