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Imaged June 13th, not a great night but managed 63 minutes before the sky turned to soup. Fourteen 270 second guided images with the Nikon D5100 in the Borg 125SD on a iOptron ZEQ25 mount. Had 19 images but set DSS to stack 80% due to overexposed frames when the haze set in. Uncropped.
Processed in PS5 and noise reduction by Noiseware Community edition. Guided in PHD2, QHY5L-II in a Borg 50mm guidescope. Imaged this back in May also.
ROG's 37884 "Cepheus" and 37800 "Cassiopeia" head up the Amber Valley with the 10:22 Crewe SY to Attercliffe Sdgs with a train consisting of 15 JHA wagons belonging to ARC for scrapping.
The Usual Suspects
Current ROG workhorses 37884 'Cepheus' and 37800 'Cassiopeia' give it the beans through Stoke Pound, working 0W78 Leicester LIP - Cardiff Brickyard Siding.
A very difficult object to capture, skies not favorable either.
An interesting object in that it has a bi polar nebula called the squid nebula within the H alpha emission nebula.
Around 15 hours O3 data and still not enough!
25 hours total exposure with H alpha, O3 and RGB
Sh2-135 is a dim emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus.
ASI1600mmp and TS 130/910 mm refractor with 0.79 x reducer..
52 x 300s H-alpha (Baader 7 nm)
60 x 30 s R/G/B
37884 "Cepheus" is working top & tail with 37608 as they pass Borrowash with the 5Q26 1050 Derby Litchurch Lane - Worksop stock move conveying brand new Transport for London , Aventra 710270 for storage on 23rd Feb 23
LDN1235 The Shark Nebula in Cepheus, captured with an 8 year old DSLR camera.
87, 6-minute, ISO-800, 550mm focal length, F5.5.
Nikon D750a, Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED, EQ6-R Pro, guided, calibrated with darks.
9/24/22 and 9/25/22, Okie-Tex Star Party 2022
Pixinsight and Photoshop
24.4.2023.
Lineside clearance has made a wider shot available at this location.
ROG liveried Class 37 No 37884 'Cepheus' comes off the ECML and crawls round the tight curve to access the Lincoln - Sheffield line.
Two Greater Anglia Class 379 EMU Units No's 379003 and 379014 were being taken to Worksop for storage.
5Q16, the 11.03 Ilford E.M.U.D - Worksop Up Sidings.
Having worked 5Q64 22.50 Birkenhead E.M.U.D - Shrewsbury then 5Q76 04.40 to Craven Arms, ROG 37884 "Cepheus" slows into Hereford on the DRL on the last leg of the journey conveying former Merseyrail EMU's 507012 + 508115 for scrapping at Sims working 5Q78 07.50 Craven Arms - Newport [Simsgroup]
[From Wikipedia] The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003.
This is my first attempt at this nebula, shot in Ha and OIII under a bright moon using my STC Duo-Narrowband filter.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Explore Scientific 80ED
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: STC Dua Narrowband (Ha and OIII)
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
141 x 180 second exposures
Calibration:
∙ Darks: Master dark from my dark library (2H of 120s darks)
- Bias: Master bias from my bias library (stack of 100 exposures)
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, Ontario.
NGC 7380 is an open cluster of stars in the northern constellation of Cepheus. The surrounding nebulosity is known as the Wizard Nebula.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone,
Sept 25-27, 2022
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183mm pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
Optolong Ha and OIII filters
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
90 X 300s Ha
114 x 300s OIII
Darks bias dithering
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS and PS
Date: 25:50-26:55JST Aug.3, 2019
Location: Amagi Highland, Shizuoka Pref., Japan
Cloud Coverage: 5 ~ 30%
Wind: Calm
Temperature: 15.7C ~ 17.7C
Humidity: 93 ~ 94%
Air pressure: 899hPa
Lens: SIGMA 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art (f/3.2)
Mount: SWAT-310 (single axis autoguiding)
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 1600
Exposure: 20x180sec.
Processing: PixInsight
updated on Aug.9, 2019
LDN1235, known as the Shark Nebula resembles a shark, but to me it's more of a ghostly apparition. It is a large molecular cloud in the constellation of Cepheus. Solar winds and radiation from nearby stars give this nebula its shape and its faint and somewhat reddish glow.
Captured under Bortle4 skies on 8/29, 8/30 and 9/1/2019 in Taxahaw, SC. It consists of about 10.5 hours total image capture time using Luminance, Red, Green and Blue filters on a monochrome camera.
Skywatcher ED80 scope
ZWO ASI1600mm Pro monochrome camera
Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G mount
Astrodon LRGB filters.
The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is said to resemble the appearance of a medieval sorcerer. It lies at a distance of 7,200 light years from Earth, has a radius of 100 light years and occupies an area of the sky the size of a full moon. The open cluster was discovered by the German astronomer Caroline Herschel in 1787. The estimated age of the cluster is 4 million years. The radiation and stellar winds of the cluster’s young stars are responsible for creating the nebula’s shape. While the nebula will dissipate within a few million years, some of the stars formed within it will likely outlive our Sun.
NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus. The complex encompasses the emission region designated Sharpless 171, and the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59. The complex is believed to be some 3000 light years distant, with the younger components aged no more than a few million years. The complex also includes one of the hottest stars discovered within 1 kpc of the Sun, an eclipsing binary system that exhibits a surface temperature of nearly 45000 K and a luminosity ~100000 times that of the Sun. The star is one of the primary sources illuminating the nebula and shaping the complex's famed pillars of creation-type formations, the elephant trunks. (Wikipedia)
This image was taken over two nights from a flat roof in light polluted London. Forums on the Internet advised against setting up on a flat roof due to heat currents and vibrations but even with 30 minute subs, I did not experience any issues. Only a few bright stars were visible in the sky so very pleased with the result using narrowband filters.
Narrowband image: 2,4/10/15
Chiswick, London, UK
7.6 Hours Total Exposure
10x1800s Ha
4x1200s SII, 4x1200s OIII
(SII and OIII bin 2x2)
Equipment:
T: Takahashi FSQ106ED at f/5
C: QSI683ws Mono CCD (-25C), Astronomik Filters (6nm Ha)
M: Celestron Advanced Vx
G: QHY5-II
Acquisition and Processing:
PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, CCDStack2, Photoshop CS6
21.6.2021.
ROG Europhoenix liveried Class 37 No 37884 'Cepheus' climbs away from Retford with 5Q26, the 10.59 Gillingham EMUD - Worksop Up Reception sidings.
SouthEastern Class 466 EMU's No's 466004, 466016 and 466245 were being taken for storage to Harry Needle's Depot at Worksop.
Rail Operations Group Class 37 No. 37884 Cepheus runs through Crewe station hauling 365519 as 5A91, Crewe TMD(E) to Willesden PRDC on 21st September 2020.
For alternative railway photography, follow the link:
www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html to the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle.
Had a nice time imaging an off beat target... well a couple of targets. This is where it is really nice to have a wide field telescope.
NGC 7129 is a beautiful reflection nebula in Cepheus. It has a lovely open cluster companion, NGC 7142.
Final version with 2 hours of the best data from 4 hours of capture time using my ZWO 533MC Pro.
ccd: Moravian G3-16200 with EFW + OAG
filters: Optolong LRGB and Astrodon 5-nm Ha/O3
telescope: FSQ 106N f/5
mount: 10Micron GM2000 QCI
guider: Lodestar X2
exposure: L 30x10min + RGB 20x5min (all 1x1)
location: Les Granges, 900 m (Hautes Alpes, France)
software: TheSkyX Pro, CCD Commander, Pixinsight, PS CC
date: 15 - 21 Aug 2020
Clagging out of Birmingham, 37884 Cepheus drags 323221 towards Bordesley Junction with 5Q66 Soho LMD to Tyseley LMD.
Cederblad 214 is a large emission nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. The brighter portion of the nebula is associated with more intense OIII emission (pinkish red) in the centre. This region is referred to as Ced214, Sharpless 171 (SH2-171), or sometimes NGC7822.
Done this image earlier but wanted to get more of the Ha activity.
The vast landscape of the nebulosity is fascinating.
Altogether about 24 hours of HSO from Almeria in Spain, TelescopeLive.
Elephant Trunk nebula IC 1396 is a huge emission nebula located in constellation of Cepheus. The nebula is 2,500 light years distance from us. The famous feature of this nebula is the Elephant Trunk IC 1396A that positioned in lower part of the image, which is a star nursery surrounded by dark interstellar dust. This Elephant Trunk is about 20 light years long. On the right, you can see Herschel’s Garnet star, the Red supergiant star. Gear setup: WO Redcat51 f/4.9, iOptron Sky Guider pro unguided, Radian Triad Narrowband filter, ZWO 2400MC cooled @ -10, ASIair. Lights subs 30x600 sec, 10 Darks, 50 Bias, 20 Flats, 20 Dark Flats. This beautiful target is imaged over two nights with total integration of 5 hours from Sky Bortle scale 3. Stacked in PixInsight and Processed by PS and Topaz Denoise AI. Cropped. For full details: www.astrobin.com/full/2344lu/0/
FSQ106ED + QHY16200A(-15C) L11x10min (Ambient +20C)
WilliamOptics Star71 + ATIK383L+(-15C)
Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2
R4x10min,G3x10min,B3x15min
on SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6GT (Total:225min)
Guiding: QHYOAG + LodestarX2
DeepSkyStacker, StellaImage7, Photoshop CC2015
Locations: Kamogawa Sports Park, Kibichuocho, Okayama, Japan
Aug. 2016
This is my first attempt of using H-Alpha exposures to improve a DSLR photograph. Did I hear somebody say: "But H-Alpha is useless with a DSLR, because on the Bayer matrix, only every 4th pixel is red"? Well......
Stack of 70 exposures of 180 seconds each at f/4 and ISO 1600 for the RGB data plus 56 frames of the same exposure time and ISO 3200 using a 7nm H-Alpha filter.
Taken on September 19th and October 19th 2020 in rural Upper Austria with a Nikon D750 and a Skywatcher Espirt 100 (reduced to 412mm f/4 unsing a Ricciardi reducer). Tracking with Skywatcher EQ6-R, Autoguiding with MGEN-3. Processed with Astro Pixel Proxessor, Starnet++ and Photoshop.
The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus located at a distance of about 2,400 light-years away.
Taken in September 2017 over multiple nights (September 1, 5, 6, 8-10, 17, & 18) from Campbell, CA, USA. Sky: 18.80 mag/arcsec^2
Total integration: 28.5 hours (1710 mins)
Details, Equipment, & Software:
Telescope: Astro-Tech AT10RCT (FL2000mm f/8)
Camera: SBIG STF-8300m (-10°C)
Filter: Astrodon 36mm H-α 5nm
Guide: OAG-8300 with QHY5III174
Focuser: Moonlite CSL w/ high res stepper motor
Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100GTO
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Frames:
Astrodon H-α:
Mosaic Frame 1: 60x900s
Mosaic Frame 2: 54x900s
Stacking/Final Processing: Pixinsight
Taken with the 130/910mm superapo triplet Tecnosky and Riccardi reducer 0.75x. LRGB combination of about 4,5 hours of total exposition time with ZWO ASI1600 mono camera on a Skywatcher AZEQ6.
Location: Tiglieto (GE)
LDN 1235 is most likely an extended red emission nebula This nebula shine by photoluminescence when dust particles are hit by high energy radiation. Also shown in this image are two reflection nebulae, van den Bergh 149 (vdB 149) and vdB 150.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A. (In the Spitzer Space Telescope view shown, the massive star is just to the left of the edge of the image.) The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.
Taken over 7 nights in Bortle 6 conditions
288 x 300 Second exposures totalling 24 hours of integration time.
30 flats
30 darks
Mount - EQ6R Pro
Camera - ZWO 2600MC cooled to -10c
Filter - Optolong L Ultimate
Telescope - WO GT81V with 0.8 Reducer
ZWO ASIAIR, ZWO Auto Focuser, ZWO Mini Guide scope and Mono Camera
Processed in Pixinsight
37884 'Cepheus' approaches Badminton leading 5Q76 0829 Parkeston Holding Sidings to Newport Docks Sims Group, with two Greater Anglia 321's for scrapping, on 26th February 2021
The Class 321 units were 321442 and 321348
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Gorgeous nebula found in the constellation of Cepheus has been the focus of my attention and the attention of my tiny little scope for the past few weeks, work, clouds and the fading end of light skies from British "summer" have been all against me.
This is now a complete "bi-colour" image of this impressive nebula, with Sulphur II mapped to Red and Hydrogen Alpha mapped to Blue.
This image is a stitch of three panels, each panel made from 20x480s Ha and 20x960s SII, all taken from my suburban garden using a Meade LX90 8" SCT reduced to f/6.3 and captured via an Atik Cameras 414ex mono.
Guiding was via OAG/ASI120mm with PHD controlling that side of things.
Once the data was grabbed, I stacked in DSS, using a preset selection of reference frames and then the mosaic is put together in Microsoft's "ICE", or Image Composite Editor - which is far simpler than "Hugin" and more consistent than Photoshop's "photomerge" feature.
After that, it goes in to Photoshop for channel mixing and levels, almost nothing else done to it, I like the palette here as it's not the albeit more accurate blend with Ha as red, but a more ghostly blue.
So what next, well....just need 16 hours of clear sky to get that OIII data in and make this a full Hubble Palette photo!
The Lion Nebula, or Sharpless 132, is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus and lies some 10000 light years away in the Arm of Perseus along our Milky Way. The stars responsible for ionizing its gases are very hot and massive, including two Wolf-Rayet stars.
La Nebulosa del León, o Sharpless 132, es una nebulosa de emisión en la constelación de Cefeo y se encuentra a unos 10.000 años luz de distancia en el Brazo de Perseo a lo largo de nuestra Vía Láctea. Las estrellas responsables de ionizar sus gases son muy calientes y masivas, incluidas dos estrellas Wolf-Rayet.
TS65q _Zwo Asi 2600 Lenhance_70x200 s
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150819.html
Total Integration: 93.0 hours
Resolution: 6023x4374
This is a combination - mosaic of wide field Narroband data, with added close-up data of the Crescent nebula area acquired with my RC. This is the fifth panel addition and final of my Gamma Cyg nebula project.
The Sadr region, or IC 1318, is the diffuse emission nebula surrounding Sadr or Gamma Cygni. Sadr lies in the center of Cygnus's cross. The Sadr region is one of the surrounding nebulous regions; others include the Butterfly Nebula and the Crescent Nebula. It contains many dark nebulae in addition to the emission diffuse nebulae.
Sadr itself has approximately a magnitude of 2.2. The nebulous regions around the region are also fairly bright.
The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away. It was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1792.[2] It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 (HD 192163) colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000[3] to 400,000[citation needed] years ago. The result of the collision is a shell and two shock waves, one moving outward and one moving inward. The inward moving shock wave heats the stellar wind to X-ray-emitting temperatures.
It is a rather faint object located about 2 degrees SW of Sadr. For most telescopes it requires a UHC or OIII filter to see. Under favorable circumstances a telescope as small as 8cm (with filter) can see its nebulosity. Larger telescopes (20cm or more) reveal the crescent or a Euro sign shape which makes some to call it the "Euro sign nebula".
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD100 f/3.8 Astrograph
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8, Main Sequence Software, Photoshop CS5
Filters: Baader Ha 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel, Starlight Xpress Lodestar Guider, Baader Planetarium 36mm narrowband filters
Dates: July 9, 2015, July 12, 2015, July 23, 2015 and August 5, 2015
Frames:
Baader Ha 8.5nm: 13x1800" bin 1x1
Baader O III 8.5nm: 14x1800" bin 1x1
Baader SII 8.5nm: 14x1800" bin 1x1
and second panel: rc
Baader Ha 8.5nm: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader O III 8.5nm: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader SII 8.5nm:8x1800" bin 1x1
Avg. Moon age: 24.76 days
Baader Ha 8.5nm: 13x1800" bin 1x1
Baader O III 8.5nm: 18x1800" bin 1x1
Baader SII 8.5nm: 14x1800" bin 1x1
and second panel:
Baader Ha 8.5nm: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader O III 8.5nm: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader SII 8.5nm:8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader Ha 8.5nm: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader O III 8.5nm: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Baader SII 8.5nm:8x1800" bin 1x1
Avg. Moon age: 24.76 days
Avg. Moon phase: 25.31%
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
A wide field in Cepheus.
Canon EOS Ra (ISO1600)
Rokinon 135 f/2 (at f/4)
Skywatcher Star Adventurer
82x2.5min (3.4 hour total)
Bortle 2/3 (Wood Lake, WI)
IC 1396 è un ammasso aperto molto sparso associato a una vasta nebulosa diffusa, visibile nella costellazione boreale di Cefeo; si trova in un tratto di Via Lattea parzialmente oscurato da densi banchi di nebulose oscure, in una regione galattica ricca di polveri e gas con associate stelle giovani e calde.
La nebulosa è di aspetto grossomodo circolare: la combinazione di telescopio e sensore usati per riprendere questa immagine non ha consentito di riprenderla per intero, ma nell’immagine se ne intuisce la forma circolare.
Tutta la nebulosa è attraversata da numerose macchie scure, che ad un'analisi più attenta si rivelano essere dei globuli di Bok, ossia regioni della nebulosa particolarmente concentrate dove avviene la formazione di nuove stelle.
Si tratta dunque di una regione H II, e fa parte di un vasto sistema di nubi molecolari e associazioni OB chiamato Complesso nebuloso di Cefeo.
Una particolare nebulosa oscura che si sovrappone all'oggetto viene chiamata anche Proboscide d'Elefante ed è identificata con la sigla vdb 142. Tutto il complesso nebulare dista dal Sole circa 3000 anni-luce.
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IC 1396 is a very scattered open cluster associated with a large diffuse nebula, visible in the boreal constellation of Cepheus; it is located in a stretch of the Milky Way partially obscured by dense banks of dark nebulae, in a galactic region rich in dust and gas with associated young and hot stars.
The nebula has a roughly circular appearance: the combination of telescope and sensor used to take this image did not allow it to be taken in full, but in the image you can guess its circular shape.
The whole nebula is crossed by numerous dark spots, which on closer analysis turn out to be Bok globules, that is particularly concentrated regions of the nebula where the formation of new stars takes place.
It is therefore an H II region, and is part of a vast system of molecular clouds and OB associations called the Cepheus Cloud Complex.
A particular dark nebula that overlaps the object is also called Elephant's Trunk and is identified with the initials vdb 142.
The whole nebula complex is about 3000 light-years from the Sun.
Technical details
Apo refractor 130/910 with Riccardi 0.75x focal reducer (692mm focal lenght, f/5.2)
Mount EQ8
CCD camera Moravian G3-16200 with filters Baader RGB, Ha 7nm
Exposures details:
R 30x300" bin1 -15C
G 28x300" bin1 -15C
B 25x300" bin1 -15C
Ha 40x600" bin1 -15C
Total integration time 13h35'
Acquisition: Voyager, PHD2
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CS5, StarXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator
SQM-L 18.5 mag/arcsec2
Images obtained through 3 nights in September 2022 from my home terrace
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a region of ionized gasses located in the constellation Cepheus at a distance of 2,400 light-years from Earth. Of interest in this area is the population of very young newborn stars, whose intense stellar winds are excavating the interior of the nebula. Dark wisps of dust hide the cocoon of forming stars, called "globules", which will be blown away when the star ignites.
Captured recently in Narrowband and Broadband using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ, courtesy of QHYCCD.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals.
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. The raw data was preprocessed using Pixinsight, the stars were removed using a tool called "Starnet" I was so delighted with the result of the starless image I decided to post a starless image as well as the image with the RGB stars.
Captured bin 2x2 over 5 nights between March and July 2021 for a total acquisition time of 13.1 hours.
View in High Resolution
Astrobin
Starless Version: www.astrobin.com/n0379w/
RGB Stars Version: www.astrobin.com/0vf46r/
Flickr:
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture April 18th, July 1st, 4th, 7th and 8th 2021
HA 140 min, 28 x 300 sec
OIII 145 min, 29 x 300 sec
SII 135 min, 27 x 300 sec
LUM 94 min, 47 x 120 sec
RED 96 min, 48 x 120 sec
GREEN 92 min, 46 x 120 sec
BLUE 84 min, 42 x 120 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing and Starnet in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
37884 'Cepheus' drags 369959 through Lower Moor at 13.54 on the 25th September 2023 running 15 minutes early. It was working 5Q08, the 13.42 Long Marston to Kilmarnock Bonnyton Depot.
ROG operated Class 37's Nos.37884 'Cepheus' with 37608 'Andromeda' on the rear are hauling London Overground Class 710 EMU No.710270. They are passing Breaston with 5Q26 10:50 Derby Litchurch Lane - Worksop Up Receptions. 23-02-2023.
SH2-132 is a faint emission nebula on the Cepheus/Lacerta border, estimated to be at a distance of about 10,000 to 12,000 light years.
I have included the starless version to show the tremendous detail in the nebula.
Image captured from Grasslands National Park, SK under Bortle 1 skies. 2020-08-19, 2020-08-20 & 2020-08-22.
Image capture details: (7h 20m)
Ha-10x1,200sec (3h20m)
OIII-6x1,200sec(2h)
SII-6x1,200sec(2h)
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet with reducer
Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned),
ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera
The Iris is a tough process. Pulling up the faint brown dust, maintaining depth in the core, the mix of cool and warm colors. It's got it all.
It's probably why I've been relentlessly reprocessing my data for the last 8 years. Seriously.
This one was captured with the ZWO ASI294MC Pro and Esprit 100. I processed this while listening to @accidentalastro 's brilliant talk on the science of image sensors.
16 x 5-minutes (Gain 120)
1 Hour, 20 Minutes Total
Captured under dark skies at the 2019 Black Forest Star Party
ROG Class 37 - 37884 “Cepheus” - heading north through Chevin on 1/6/22 with 5E23 - 07.53 - Derby RTC to Doncaster Roberts Road ECS.
Taken using pole.
Cepheus is named after a king of Aethiopia in Greek mythology. He is a peregrine cross saker falcon that hatched in 2021 and lives at Fen Falconry at Wisbech St. Mary, Cambridgeshire.
He is seen at the Sotterley Country Fair in Suffolk.
Dark Nebula in Cepheus
R,G,B: 12 x 300s each
L: 12 x 600s
Total exposure time: 5 hours
Imaged from Lake Sonoma, CA on July, 18 2015
Main Camera: QSI 583 WSG
Guide Camera: SXV Lodestar (on OAG)
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1
Scope: Stellarvue SV100Q (effective FL: 580mm)
Image Aquisition software MaximDL
Registed, Calibrated and Stacked and Post Processed with PixInsight 1.8
In this large celestial mosaic taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and published in 2019, there's a lot to see, including multiple clusters of stars born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust. Some of these clusters are older than others and more evolved, making this a generational stellar portrait. This image is of the Cepheus C and Cepheus B regions and combines data from Spitzer's IRAC and MIPS instruments.
The grand green-and-orange delta filling most of the image is a faraway nebula, or a cloud of gas and dust in space. Though the cloud may appear to flow from the bright white spot at its tip, it is actually what remains of a much larger cloud that has been carved away by radiation from stars. The bright region is illuminated by massive stars, belonging to a cluster that extends above the white spot. The white color is the combination of four colors (blue, green, orange and red), each representing a different wavelength of infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes. Dust that has been heated by the stars' radiation creates the surrounding red glow.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. Technical Info:
60 x 300 sec. Astronomik Ha 12 nm filter
80 x 300 sec. Optolong L-eHance
Gain 200, Offset 50, Binning 1x1
Total Integration 11.7 hours
Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 APO Refractor
Sensor cooled to -20°C on ZWO ASI1600MM Pro (mono)
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks, and Flats.
Plate Solve-ASTAP via N.I.N.A. 1.11
Image processing Pixinsight 1.8.8 and finished in Photoshop CC 2021
The image shows the western part of the Cepheus and the eastern part of the Cygnus Constellation in a wide view H-alpha image.. The frame is full of famous nebulas like Cocoon Nebula, Flying Bat Nebula, North America Nebula, Pelican Nebula, Lion Nebula etc.
Pentax DFA2.8/50mm and ASI2600mm pro.
42 x 200s Ha
A very faint but very large squid-like nebula is visible in planet Earth's sky -- but inside a still larger bat. The Giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and Sh2-129 also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, are both caught in this cosmic scene toward the royal royal constellation Cepheus. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's alluring bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue-green emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently completely surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, a more recent investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, Ou4 would represent a spectacular outflow driven by HR8119, a triple system of hot, massive stars seen near the center of the nebula. The truly giant Squid Nebula would physically be nearly 50 light-years across.
[Text from APOD 2020 October 7]
Takahashi FSQ-106 f5
Mount Astro Physics 1100 GTO
ASI 6200 MMpro
Filters: Antlia Ha 3nm 36x480s, OIII 3nm 55x600s, Astrodon GenII RGB 42x180s
Date: aug_sep/2021
Italy, Long 7°41'40"E, Lat 45°28'18"N. Sky 20,9-21,2
Automation software: Voyager (L. Orazi)
Processing: CCDStack, Photoshop, Pixinsight