Wolf's Cave (Crop)

Wolf's Cave Crop

Heavy crop of the mosaic from 1.87 x 1.22 degrees to 30 x 30 arcminutes.

 

Reprocessed the mosaic using Drizzle data & cropped the image. this time almost entirely processed using PixInsight

 

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Van den Bergh 152 aka The Wolf's Cave is a blue reflection nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. It is roughly 1400 light years away. The dust trailing the nebula is cataloged as Barnard 175. The small nebula(top right) is DeHt5.

 

11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar (F/2)

QHY23M

 

2 panel mosaic:

Images acquired 9/12, 9/22 & 9/24/16

2-Ha-12x300sec

2-LUM-20x120sec

2-RGB-12x120sec/each

 

5h 44min

Done