This is the area around dark nebula LDN 1495 in Taurus. It is part of the much larger Taurus molecular dark cloud, and it has been on my to-do list for over to years now. There are a couple of background galaxies in this image. The most obvious to me is PGC89977 in the upper right hand corner.

The image is a bit noisy so don't zoom in too far.

Date: December 23, 2014
Time: 7:30 pm - 10:20 pm
Camera: SBIG STF-8300M
CCD Temperature: -13 C
Optics: Televue 127is (reduced)
Filter: Astronomik L
Light frames: 30x5 min
Dark frames: none (bias frames)
Flat frames: 25
Bias frames: 100
Binning: 1x1
Guiding: Orion SSAG @ Orion finder (~162 mm)
Mount: AP Mach 1
Dithering: Manual
Processing: Stacking in CCDStack, Curves, Levels, and noise removal actions in PSCS6.