Cepheus photos on Flickr

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From left to right you can see the constellations: Cepheus, Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, Sagitta and Aquila.

Next to the top-center, the star Vega stands out. On the other side of the Milky Way, in the center to the right, Altair is clearly visible.

Emission Nebula IC 1396 and the Elephant Trunk by Tom Wildoner

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This is the faint emission nebula designated as IC 1396 in the constellation Cepheus. This region is energized by the bright, bluish central multiple star HD 206267. You can see the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, IC 1396A, on the lower edge of this image. From NASA APOD, “Stars could still be forming inside the dark shapes by gravitational collapse. But as the denser clouds are eroded away by powerful stellar winds and radiation, any forming stars will ultimately be cutoff from the reservoir of star stuff.”

Tech Specs: William Optics REDCAT 51 Telescope, ZWO ASI071MC camera running at 0F and Optolong L-eXtreme 2” Filter, 5 Hours and 35 Minutes using 5-minute subs, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, ZWO EAF (ProAstroGear Black-CAT) and ASIAir Pro, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 mini, processed in PixInsight. Image Date: August 3, 2025. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy by gaprunella

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September 2019

Telescope:Explore Scientific 102 FCD100

Image Camera:ZWO ASI1600mmPro-Cool

Mount:Sky Watcher EQ6R-Pro

LRGB, 2 min exposures approx 100 images per filter

2 Panel Mosaic processed with PixInsight

About 13 hours gathering data, Another 20 hours to process into a finished image.

M31 aka The Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda was the daughter of king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia would boast that Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids (the nymph daughters of the sea god Nereus). This angered Poseidon. Poseidon then send the sea monster Cetus to ravage Andromeda as divine punishment. King Cepheus then chains Andromeda to a rock as sacrifice to sate the sea monster. Along comes Perseus to save Andromeda and slay the sea monster. Ahhh so romantic.

The Iris Nebula in Cepheus - NGC 7023 by Dominique Dierick

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William Optics FLT132 refractor, ZWO ASI2600MC camera, imaged at Tellin, Belgium.

In a strait row by Anders Gisle Larsson

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Rad og række, Uge 19, Cepheus Park, Randers

In 1898, Randers Sportsklub Freja was founded, and was in 1970 for the first time in the top of Danish football.

In 1985 and 1987, Randers Freja was in the best row (1st division), but had difficulty in meeting the requirements for paid football.

The 1990s were a low point for Randers Freja, as at one point there was a risk of moving down in the Danish series.

in 2003, the current Randers FC was formed by a merger of 5 local football clubs.

LDN 1235, VDB 149 + VDB 150, UGC 11861 (the little galaxy) by Carlo Rocchi

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vdB 149 and vdB 150 are a reflection nebulae visible in the constellation Cepheus. It seems that they're part of the great dark nebula LDN 1235 and their estimated distance from the earth is about 1019 a.l.

Camera: Moravian G2 8300

Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong

Optic: Triplet Apo Tecnosky 80mm f/4.8

Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP

Autoguider: camera Magzero 5m, SW 70/500, Phd guiding

Frames: L: 14X600sec - RGB: 4X600 sec each bin1

Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop

Cepheus at Derby RTC by 52D Rail Images

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ROG Livery Class 37, No. 37884 "Cepheus"

Seen outside Loram at Derby RTC

Hereford 10/6/24 by Martin Turner CF

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Europhoenix/ROG 37884 "Cepheus" burbles away on the DRL where it is booked to stop for 73 minutes, working 5W78 12.17 Gresty Green Through Sidings - Landore T.M.D. conveying off lease Transport for Wales 2car Coradia units 175006 & 175007 between barrier vehicles 6330 & 6344 with 37608 "Andromeda" bringing up the rear.

NGC 7822 by Nik Szymanek

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NGC 7822 in Cepheus

Ikharos 10" RC telescope

QSI 683wsg CCD camera

Paramount MX mount.

Image taken remotely from AstroCamp, Nerpio, Spain 2014.

Narrowband Hubble palette.

Ha: 103 x 600s

OIII: 38 x 600s

SII: 33 x 600s

New process with Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight, Affinity Photo

Image: Nik Szymanek & Ian King.

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Iris Nebula close-up (NGC7023) in LRGB by Jose Carballada

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www.astrobin.com/413187

Iris Nebula is dramatic reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus.

With plenty of dark interstellar dust is illuminated by a central hot star named SAO 19158 which is 10 times the mass of our sun.

It lies 1,300 light-years away and is six light-years across.

It was integrated only 15 hours, 50% best frames of the total valid frames taken between May and June of 2019.

PD: I am glad to check my improvements when I compare to this other capture from three years ago. :D

www.astrobin.com/263914

Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens:Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube

Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool

Mount:Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4

Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe

Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174

Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x

Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Astro-Physics AAPC, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight

Filters:Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm

Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30

Resolution: 2318x1665

Dates:June 1, 2019

Frames:

Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 41x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 40x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 177x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 42x180" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 15.0 hours

Avg. Moon age: 27.55 days

Avg. Moon phase: 4.36%

Astrometry.net job: 2777189

RA center: 315.429 degrees

DEC center: 68.162 degrees

Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 270.122 degrees

Field radius: 0.399 degrees

Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain

Data source: Own remote observatory

Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility

IC1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula by Jeremy Jonkman

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I am really happy with my latest image of the Elephant trunk nebula (IC 1396). 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 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.

Equipment:

Telescope - William Optics Redcat 51

Imaging Camera- Qhy268m

Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro

Software:

Sequence Generator Pro

Pixinsight

Lightroom

Photoshop

Lights:

R-50x30sec

G-50x30sec

B-50x30sec

Sii-40x300sec

Ha-40x300sec

Oiii-40x300sec

35 Darks

100 Bias

Total integration 12.5 hours

The Northern Milky Way from Auriga to Aquila by Alan Dyer

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This is a 140° panorama of the northernmost section of the Milky Way, from Auriga at left to Aquila at right. Perseus, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Cygnus are across the centre.

This northern section of the Milky Way stretches high across the sky on autumn nights as seen from the northern hemisphere, as it was this night, October 30, 2021.

The Milky Way is laced with many dark lanes of interstellar dust which extend off the main band of the Milky Way, as at centre. The dust colours the Milky Way and sky with a yellow-brown tint. Punctuating the Milky Way are red and magenta emission nebulas, the most prominent being the North America Nebula in Cygnus (right of centre) and the California Nebula (at far left) in Perseus.

At right are the three stars of the Summer Triangle (R to L: Altair, Vega and Deneb); at left is Capella in Auriga. At centre is the W of stars of Cassiopeia.

This is a stitch of 4 segments, each a stack of 8 x 4-minute expsures at ISO 800 with the Canon Ra and with the RF 28-70mm lens at 28mm and f/2.8. It was on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. Another panorama of 4 segments taken through a Kase StarGlow filter and layered in added the glows on the bright stars.

All stacking, stitching and alignment was in Photoshop. Taken from home on a very clear night October 30, 2021. A bright Kp 6 to 7 aurora was forecast for this night but never materialized. Bands of reddish airglow drifted through the fields during the exposures but the stacking and averaging helped smooth out the discolouration.

Emission Nebula IC 1396 by Tom Wildoner

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This is the faint emission nebula designated as IC 1396 in the constellation Cepheus. This region is energized by the bright, bluish central multiple star HD 206267. You can see the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, IC 1396A, on the lower edge of this image. From NASA APOD, “Stars could still be forming inside the dark shapes by gravitational collapse. But as the denser clouds are eroded away by powerful stellar winds and radiation, any forming stars will ultimately be cutoff from the reservoir of star stuff.”

Tech Specs: Williams Optics REDCAT51, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro running at 0C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 32 x 300 seconds (2hr40min), guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro running v1.5 software, stacked in DSS and processed using PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom. Image date: September 19th and 20th, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

NGC 7023 Iris Nebula RGB by Eric Smith

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NGC 7023 or Iris Nebula is a wonderful example of an open star cluster associated with a reflection nebula. It is located in Cepheus, about 3.5 degrees southwest of β Cep (Alfirk).

Visually, NGC 7023 is a fairly bright, irregularly-shaped reflection nebula surrounding a 7th magnitude star (HD 200775) . NGC 7023 lies in a region of the Milky Way darkened by dust, within which the nebula is embedded.

NGC 7023 is about 6 light-years across, and 1,300 light-years away. Within the Iris, dusty nebular material surrounds a massive, hot, young star in its formative years.

Imaged in December 2024 over three nights at the Turismo Astronómico complex in Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain using the Esprit 100ED telescope and ASI 2600 MC Pro camera through a UV/IR cut filter.

Full details and a high resolution image you can download here or at: astrob.in/wi2br0/0/

SH2-159 Lobster Claw 08-Oct-24 by Steve Brown

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Target: SH2-159 Lobster Claw Nebula

This nebula lies between the constellations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus. In the upper right is the beginnings of the Bubble Nebula that I recently imaged. I used a dual narrowband filter (Ha and Oiii) and processed this as a HOO pallet with the reds indicating Hydrogen and blues Oxygen.

Gear:

Mount: ZWO AM5

Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 8F

Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope

Telescope: Askar 103APO w/ 0.8x reducer/flattener - 420mm f/4

Filter: Antlia ALP-T Dual Narrowband 5nm Ha and Oiii

Acquisition:

Light frames: 91 5min subs for 7hr 35Min integration

Sessions: 09-Oct-2024

Moon: 8 days old 35% 111deg from target

Location: Houston Backyard ~ Bortle 8/9

Processing

• Pixinsight Auto DBE, BTX, STX

• Pixinsight split starless channels, NXT

• Pixinsight Create HOO channels

• Ha = R • Oiii = .5*B+.5*G

• Pixinsight Statistical stretch

• Pixinsight Create HOO image

• R = Ha

• G = ((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

• B = Oiii

• Pixinsight Narrowband Normalization HOO, Lightness Ha, Blend Mode 1 Amount 0

• Pixinsight HT black point and balance channels, Curves for saturation

• Pixinsight Stretch Stars using - Star Stretch

• Pixinsight HT black point color balance, Saturation Curves

• Photoshop ACR contrast, black point, clarity, de haze

• Photoshop Selective Colors, ACR, channel D&B to balance colors

• Photoshop Screen stars, duplicate layer/black mask/reveal select stars

• Photoshop Final curves, watermark

37884 Soulbury by Nigel Gibbs

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37884 'Cepheus' 5Q70 13.00 Stewarts Lane T&RSMD - Wolverton Centre Sdgs.

Taking 455814 to works.

28/07/18

IMG_4792x22 37884 Wingfield Park by Phil.Chilton

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37884 "Cepheus" passes Wingfield Park while working Transport for Britain "The Buxton Spa Express" 1Z86 1710 Buxton - Lichfield City returning charter which has 57312 and 37608 on the rear on 18th July 21.....having chased from Buxton in Sunday traffic, this was just a point and press from the car door having run out of time

PM1-333 by Peter Goodhew

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PM1-333 is a small (70 arc seconds) planetary nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It was discovered by Andrea Preite-Martinez in 1988. I believe this to be the deepest, and highest resolution colour image of this target. The tiny blue progenitor star can just be made out dead centre of the image.

It lies within IC1396 where it appears as a small dot at the bottom left hand corner in J-P Metsavainio's excellent image 1.bp.blogspot.com/-JEMi-QvpB0Q/XicHMRDQXbI/AAAAAAAARug/EC...

Image captured on my remote dual rig at Fregenal de la Sierra in Spain between 20-30 September 2021.

Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors

Cameras: QSI6120wsg8

Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS

A total of 54 hours image capture (HaOIIILRGB)

More details at: www.imagingdeepspace.com/pm1-333.html

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula by Manuel Huss

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The Elephant's Trunk nebula and it's surroundings (IC 1396) form a large emission nebula complex located in the Cepheus constellation and about 2,400 light years away from earth.

Image taken with a TS Star71/347mm flatfield apo & ATIK 383l+ CCD Camera. (h-alpha & OIII data)

Blu Cepheus [EXPLORED] by Régis KROL

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NGC6946_LRGB_v2 by Bart Delsaert

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NGC6946 is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, located on the boundary between the constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 22.5 million light-years. Discovered by William Herschel on 9 September 1798, this well-studied galaxy has a diameter of approximately 40.000 light-years, about one-third of the Milky Way’s size, and it contains roughly half the number of stars as the Milky Way. Due to its prodigious star formation it has been classified as an active starburst galaxy. In the past century, eight supernovas have been observed to explode in the arms of this galaxy, attaching weight to its nickname of the “Fireworks Galaxy.” The galaxy is heavily obscured by interstellar matter as it lies quite close to the galactic plane of our Milky Way.

Appearing in the same field, just 40′ northwest of NGC6946 you find NGC6939, a dim open star cluster. The cluster lies approximately 4.000 light years away and it is over a billion years old.

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope

Camera: FLI ML16803

Mount: ASA DDM85

Exposure: 8 hours (60x300s L + 3x10x300s RGB)

Acquisition: May 2018 – Processing: May 2021

Location: Southern Alps, France

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37884+769421 5Q42 Lower Moor. by BOB FOSTER'S RAIL GALLERY

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37884"Cepheus" +769421 pass Lower Moor on 03/Jan/25 with 5Q42 10.47 Long Marston to Crewe.

IC 1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula by Simon Addis

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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. 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. (Wikipedia)

Narrowband image: 19-20-21/4/15

Oxfordshire, UK

4.3 Hours Total Exposure

Bin 1x1: 7x1200s Ha

Bin 2x2: 6x600s SII, 6x600s OIII

Equipment:

T: Takahashi FSQ106ED

C: QSI683ws Mono CCD, Astronomik Filters (6nm Ha)

M: Celestron Advanced Vx

G: QHY5-II

Acquisition and Processing:

PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, CCDStack2, Photoshop CS6

IREC 154 by Andy Ermolli

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This is a dark nebula in Cepheus. I imaged this with the Takahashi Epsilon 180 and the ZWO ASI 2400 MC PRO.

37884 at Milton Malsor. by kettrin62

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ROG operated Class 37/8 No.37884 ‘Cepheus‘ hauling 317511 at Milton Malsor with 5Q58 09:01 Kilmarnock Bonnyton Depot - Ilford E.M.U.D.

Iris Nebula (NGC7023) (5h exp) by Marc V

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Nikon D5100 + Zenithstar 73

SVBony CLS filter

ZWO ASI224MC + WO Uniguide 120mm

November 6th & 8th, 2021

140 x 2min

AstroM1

(r2xb.2)

Elephant trunk nebula (IC1396) by Jeremy Jonkman

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Here is my recent image of the Elephant trunk nebula (IC 1396) with my big telescope the Celestron 9.2 5Edge HD. 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 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.

Equipment:

Telescope - Celestron 9.25 Edge HD

Imaging Camera- Qhy268m

Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro

Software:

Sequence Generator Pro

Pixinsight

Lightroom

Photoshop

Lights:

R-30x60sec

G-30x60sec

B-30x60sec

Sii-50x300sec

Ha-50x300sec

Oiii-50x300sec

35 Darks

100 Bias

Total integration 14 hours

Hereford 15/3/19 by Martin Turner CF

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Rail Operations Group 37884 "Cepheus" stands at the signal on the DRL hauling scrap yard bound former Strathclyde EMU 314206 working 5Q76 22.26 Shields T.M.D. [E] - Newport Docks [Simsgroup]

Dark Shark LDN1235 03-Oct-24 by Steve Brown

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This nebula is rightly named the Dark Shark nebula. This was my third try at capturing this one, with the first two not worth completing the processing. The nebula is both a dark and reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus approximately 650 light-years away. The shark spans approximately 15 light-years head-to-tail.

Gear:

Mount: ZWO AM5

Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 8F

Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope

Telescope: Askar 103APO w/ 0.8x reducer/flattener - 560mm f/5.4

Filter: Baader Moon and Sky glow Broadband light pollution

Acquisition:

Light frames: 142 180 second subs for 7hr 6min integration

Sessions: 02-Oct-2024

Moon: 0 days old 0%

Location: Houston Astronomical Society Dark Site ~ Bortle 4

Processing

• Pixinsight Auto DBE, SPCC ,BTX, STX

• Pixinsight Stretch Starless using script - statistical stretch

• Pixinsight Stretch Stars using - GHS Arcsinh stretch

• Pixinsight Histogram stretch to set better black point color balance, Saturation Curves

• Photoshop ACR contrast, black point, clarity, de-haze

• Photoshop Selective Colors to balance colors

• Photoshop Screen stars, duplicate layer/black mask/reveal select stars

• Photoshop Final curves, watermark

Ghost of the Cepheus Flare by Oleg Bryzgalov

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Spooky shapes seem to haunt this starry expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, they lurk at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over 2 light-years across the ghostly nebula known as vdB 141 or Sh2-136 is near the center of the field. The core of the dark cloud on the right is collapsing and is likely a binary star system in the early stages of formation.

(Text from apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101030.html)

This picture was photographed on July 6-8, 2011 in the Crimea during the festival of amateur astronomy, "Southern Nights 2011" (height of 600 m above. sea level)

Equipment: reflector S&D 254 mm. f/4.7 (New carbon tube!), Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.

RGB filter set Baader Planetarium.

L: 20x600 sec., RGB: 10x600 sec. each filter, all unbinned.

North up.

Processed Pixinsight and Photoshop CS5.

Sh2-132 The Lion Nebula, Cepheus by ShinyPhotoScotland

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Prints, cards and more are available via the website: shiny.photo/photo/Sh2-132-The-Lion-Nebula--Cepheus-20c162...

Sh2-132, also known as the "Lion Nebula", is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. Part of the Sharpless catalog, a list ofH II regions - clouds of glowing gas where star formation occurs.

About 10,000ly distant and 250ly across, Sh2-132 is situated in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way.

The most prominent sources of ionization in Sh2-132 are two Wolf-Rayet stars, which are extremely hot and massive stars nearing the end of their lives. These stars emit intense stellar winds shaping the surrounding gas into intricate structures.

Another of those occasions where one tries to match the DSS image of the Ha emission pattern resembling a lion with how the data looks. Make the OIII too bright a blue and it becomes a cut-'n'-shut with the front and rear ends too separate... It's also about the fine veins and blobs of dark nebulae - lanes of dust in the foreground.

4hr35min total integration with the IDAS NBZ dual-narrowband (Ha + OIII) filter, from which I extracted the Ha & OIII data separately using APP and recombined in PI.

Sh2-155 The Cave Nebula by Kimberly Sibbald

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The Cave Nebula is a diffuse nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Sh2-155 is an ionized Hydrogen Alpha region with ongoing star formation activity, at an estimated distance of 2400 light-years from Earth.

Image captured from Grasslands National Park, SK under Bortle 1 skies. 2020-08-14, 2020-08-15 & 2020-08-16.

Image capture details: (5h 40m)

Ha-7x1,200sec (2h20m)

OIII-5x1,200sec((1h 40m)

SII-5x1,200sec(1h 40m)

Imaging Equipment:

SharpStar 140PH Triplet

Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned),

ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera

Rail Operations Group by garstangpost.t21

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ROG Class 37 37884 "Cepheus" passes Woodacre near Garstang on 0s08 Dertby RTC - Kilmarnock Civil Engineer's Sidings on 26/06/2022

The doors of perception by Mark Freeth

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Was the name of a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley. This Is IC 1396 an area of star formation in the constellation of Cepheus containing the well known Elephants trunk Nebula which can be seen at about 12 o'clock in the Nebula. This is a stack of 8 HSO one click observations taken with the Telescope live Facility in Spain telescope.live/

LDN1269-70-71 (Cepheus Pilars West) in Hα-SII/OIII/OIII+rgb by Jose Carballada

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My travel on the LDN catalogue of dark nebulae is still in progress.

Now I visited the nice west area of the Cepheus Pilars (NGC7822), integrating more than 80 hours of data to create this picture.

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 3,000 light years, with the younger components aged no more than a few million years. (credits Wikipedia)

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube

Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool

Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2

Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider

Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI290 Mini , ZWO ASI174 Mini

Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener

Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro

Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm

Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , TALON6 R.O.R , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor

Dates:Sept. 11, 2020 , Sept. 12, 2020 , Sept. 13, 2020 , Sept. 14, 2020

Frames:

Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 100x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 100x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 231x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 130x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1

Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 100x30" (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 121x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1

Integration: 82.8 hours

Avg. Moon age: 24.69 days

Avg. Moon phase: 24.99%

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 3890533

Resolution: 2328x1760

Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain

Data source: Own remote observatory

Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility

Aventador. by Nino - www.thelittlespotters.fr

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Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris. October 18th 2014.

Vdb152_v2_LRGB by Bart Delsaert

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Van den Berg (VdB) 152 is an elongated molecular cloud 1,400 light years distant in the constellation of Cepheus. It is sufficiently dense in localized areas to block all light from stars from reaching us. In other areas, some stars shine through. Its reddish color is largely due to light scattering off dust particles within the cloud. This preferentially scatters light of shorter wavelengths and lets redder light through. The tip of the cloud near the center of the image is reflecting blue light from a nearly embedded star.

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope

Camera: FLI ML16803

Mount: ASA DDM85

Exposure: 56x5min L + 18x5min each for RGB

Acquisition: April – May 2017 – Processing: April 2021

Location: Southern Alps, France

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