#coalsack nebula

[cosmonautroger]

Coalsack Nebula

[cmdr-consortia]

Entry 030

27-09-3308 10:21:45 Inner Orion Spur | Musca Dark Region CQ-Y D86

I took a trip to see the Coalsack Nebula, and I've gotta say...this nebula is almost more terrifying than a black hole. Being half in and half out of it is extremely disorienting, and it's like half the stars in the galaxy were snuffed out and consumed by darkness, whereas the other side is totally fine. Being completely submerged within the nebula is almost better, because it simply looks like the night sky on any planet with an atmosphere. Very strange. I only took one photo, and it was outside of the Coalsack since it was the only good sight.

Next up on my trip will be the R Coronae Australis Nebula.

[spinningblueball]

C99 - Coal Sack & Dark Doodad Nebulae

[thecookierebel]

[kriisxx]

Coalsack nebula peaking through the clouds. Single tracked 90 second exposure with the moon rising over the horizon.

[cosmonautroger]

Coalsack Nebula

[quiltofstars]

The Coalsack Nebula, C99 // Ireneusz Nowak (iro)

Extending into the neighboring constellations is the Coalsack Nebula, a dark cloud of light-obscuring dust about 587 light years away in the constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross. Having been viewed for millennia by indigenous peoples in the southern hemisphere, the Coalsack has no discoverer although Europeans first heard about it from the Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (c. 1462-1514) in 1499.

[quiltofstars]

From the Coalsack Nebula (left) to the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944, right) // Rolf Dietrich