Jonathan#Gaia BH1 imaged through a 4" refractor. Pretty neat to see a widefield of this area. I might try with my 8" Newtonian next summer.
Image Credit: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/849458-our-nearest-black-hole-gaia-bh1/
Our nearest black hole - Gaia BH1 - Experienced Deep Sky Imaging - Cloudy Nights
Our nearest black hole - Gaia BH1 - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: I saw this article of a newfound black hole nearest to our solar system. This intrigued me so much that I decided to try to image it with a modest 4 refractor - well I didnt quite have the resolution for blck hole itself but the nearby star. So the star in question was named Gaia DR3 4373465352415301632 and its a mag 14ish star in Ophiuchus and the distance is 1560 light years. Gaia BH1 was a system with an invisib...