Webb’s Wreath is an asterism of 13 stars in Hercules. The brightest is HD 164922 (HIP 88348 and numerous other designations), a magnitude 7 star located approximately 71.69 light-years away. This star appears to have four detected planets. This grouping was first mentioned in Thomas Webb’s 1881 “Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes” -
https://archive.org/details/celestialob ... 5/mode/2up on page 138. There is also an article in the May, 2025 Sky & Telescope by Stephen James O’Meara starting on page 12. Lastly, this is one of the objects on the Astronomy League’s Asterism Observing Program that now allows imaging -
https://www.astroleague.org/asterism-observing-program.
Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 minutes
RGB – 8x180s – 24 minutes each – binned 2x2
182 minutes total exposure – 3 hours 2 minutes
Imaged March 20th and 21st, 2025 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.
LRGB -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 6/sizes/l/
Dan
