IC1396, a large region of ionised gas containing the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (top right of centre - a concentration of interstellar gas and dust) and the Garnet Star (large red star top left), located in the constellation Cepheus about 2400 light years away from Earth. The Garnet Star is 1000 times larger and 100000 times brighter than the Sun!

ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro, gain 100, cooled to -10degC

William Optics GT81 with Flat 6AIII

Optolong L-eXtreme filter

ASIAir Pro

HEQ5 Pro mount guided

ZWO EAF

82 x 180s lights

40 darks

80 flats

80 dark flats

Stacked in DSS, processed in Photoshop and finished in Lightroom

Bortle 4 skies

Rail Operations Group return 'Transport for Britain' Rail Charter Buxton Spa Express approaching Claymills Stretton.

I dug a set of old data taken in December, 2022.

The comet, C/2020 V2 ZTF was drifting toward south southwest in Cepheus near the north celestial pole. Dust coma was round and small. Dust tail was short toward north northeast. Bluish green ion halo was round and beautiful. Ion tail was not detected. North is up, and east is to the left.

Sun Distance 2.671 AU

Earth Distance 2.075 AU

equipment: Orion UK AG12 with black low reflectivity material on the side of vanes and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on Vixen AXD Equatorial Mount, auto guided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on

exposure: 26 times x 240 seconds at ISO 6,400, 9 x 60 sec at ISO 6,400 and 21 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.8

First exposure started at 15:40:29 UTC December 29, 2022.

site: 1,466m above sea level at lat. 35 48 26 North and long. 138 39 24 East near Kotogawa dam in Yamanashi. 山梨県牧丘柳平

Ambient temperature was around -6 degrees Celsius or 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. SQML reached 20.97 at the night. Wind was mild. Seeing was awful as usual in this season. Guide error RMS was aroung 4". Mild wind must have influenced the guide quality on this large scope.

NGC 7822 is a star forming region located 3000 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. The molecular cloud complex which gives rise to the visible nebula is known as the radio source W1 (Westerhout 1), one of the largest molecular cloud complexes in the Milky Way.

Image details:

Data for this image was captured over multiple nights in central Missouri from October-December 2018.

This image consists of ionized oxygen and hydrogen lines at 6nm, with hydrogen mapped to red and oxygen mapped to green and blue.

HA: 123 x 300s, Gain 300

O3: 80 x 300s, Gain 300

16.9 hours total data

Gear:

Scope: AT6RC Ritchey–Chrétien

Camera: ASI1600MM Pro

Filters: Astronomik 6nm

Processed in Pixinsight and CS6

Captured with Sequence Generator Pro

Final version of the The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus. Ha-RGB combination of color data from a Pentax K3ii and hydrogfen alpha data from an Asi1600mmpro with 7mm Baader Ha filter.

24 x 300s Ha at gain 139.

96 x 300s RGB at ISO 800.

TA 130/910 mm apo refractor.

Wide field image of a dark nebula cloud complex in Cepheus centered on Barnard 175. I collected over 40hrs. of data during a two-week period across three states at two dark sky sites, Copper Breaks State Park, Texas. and Black Mesa State Park, Oklahoma, plus my usual suburb/rural transition site in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Some whispy Ha bands are visible. William Optic Redcat51 scope with a Canon Ra camera, mounted on iOptron 60EC, 3 min. exposures, mostly unguided.

The Wizard Nebula is an emission nebula that surrounds the open star cluster NGC 7380 in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is known for its unique shape, resembling the appearance of a medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region lies at a distance of 7,200 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 7.2. It has a radius of 100 light years and occupies 25 arc minutes of the apparent sky. It has the designation Sh2-142 in the Sharpless catalog of H II regions.

Taken 23 June 2020 and 8,9,10 July 2020. Moon was minimal, early setting and low in the sky on these dates.

I was having trouble with movement in the optical train, now fixed with a better focuser, so framing not so good as I didn’t want to rotate the camera and filter wheel to one side. Will do next time around. Also, my focal length has walked during collimation so focus is not optimal and focal plane is tilted. Currently working on that issue to optimise the whole setup. Will invest in a Howie Glater laser collimator to help with that.

300s light frames totalling 8.6 hours SHO Narrowband, blended with a Foraxx pallet 50:50 mix using Pixelmath in Pixinsight.

Astromiks 36mm SHO 6nm Filters

30 x Darks, Flats (for each filter) and Dark Flats

ZWO ASI294MM Pro 120 gain, -10C

ZWO 7x36mm EFW

ZWO EAF

Stellalyra 8” Ritchey-Chrétien Carbon

HEQ6

ASIAIR Plus

Astro Pixel Processor

Pixinsight

Photoshop 2022

Rail Operations Group Class 37 diesel locomotive 37884 "Cepheus" drags ex Greater Anglia Class 317 EMU 317882 through Water Orton working as 5Q76 08.03 Ely Papworth Sidings "MLF" to Newport Docks

37884 "Cepheus" heads north past Closeburn, on the G&SW, with 769006 on a Long Marston to Kilmarnock move.

Description from NASA APOD: Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition", mysterious reflection nebula VdB 152 really is very faint.

the cosmic phantom is nearly 1,400 light-years away. Also catalogued as Ced 201, it lies along the northern Milky Way in the royal constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of a large molecular cloud, pockets of interstellar dust in the region block light from background stars or scatter light from the embedded bright star giving parts of the nebula a characteristic blue color.

Data captured in Jun/Jul 2017 from SRO in California

Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL

Mount: AstroPhysics 1100 AE

Camera: FLI PL16803

Focuser: Optec

Filters: Astrodon

Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope

Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel

Processing: PixInsight 1.8

*Image processing credit: Daniele Malleo

*Data Acquisition Credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Rick Stevenson, Jose Mtanous, Scott Johnson, Augusto Hernandez

Barnard 150 is a dark nebula visible in the Cepheus constellation at a distance of 1,200 light-years. It is also known as the Seahorse Nebula due to its shape. This nebula is rich in interstellar cloud with a density in regions that is great enough to cause the obstruction of light emission from nearby stellar objects. The obstruction of light is seen as dark regions within the image.

Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope

Camera: FLI ML16803

Mount: ASA DDM85

Exposure: 6 hours (36x300s L + 3x12x300s RGB)

Date: May 2019 – June 2021

Location: Southern Alps, France

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Rail Operations Group class 37 No.37884 'Cepheus' pauses at Preston hauling ScotRail Inter7city set HA08 returning to Scotland as 5N09 11:25 Wolverton to Carlisle.

The train will continue to Inverness the following morning (18 October 2024).

NGC 7129 and NGC 7142 are two objects in the constellation Cepheus. NGC 7142 is an open star cluster that shares its place with a sickle-shaped hydrogen alpha emission zone. NGC 7129 is a reflection nebula that also shows a substancial amount of hydrogen alpha signal around the more reflective center.

Image acquisition with an ASI1600mmp and a TS Photoline 130/910 mm refractor.

134 x 200s Ha

This is a rich region for star clusters and nebulas on the Cassiopeia-Cepheus border:

The bright open star cluster Messier 52 is at upper left, and below it is the Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635. Below the Bubble is the aptly named Lobster Claw Nebula, Sharpless 2-157 showing subtle shades of red and pink. The small bright nebula to the right of the Bubble is the unnamed NGC 7538. The large nebula at upper left is the Cave Nebula, Sharpless 2-155. However, the entire field is filled with faint nebulosity as well as small intense red patches. A small yellowish star cluster at lower right is NGC 7419.

This is a stack of 10 x 8-minute exposures through the William Optics RedCat 51mm f/4.9 astrographic refractor with the red-sensitive Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 800, and blended with a stack of 4 x 15-minute exposures through the Optolong L-Enhance narrowband filter, with the EOS Ra at ISO 3200, to make up for the nearly 3 stops loss of light from the filter. But it really pops out all the faint nebulosity. This was the first use of the add-on filter drawer from Starizona, which facilitates adding and removing a 48mm filter into the light path without having to remove the camera and risk field rotation. It worked very well.

Guiding was with the Lacerta MGEN 3 stand-alone autoguider, which also controlled the camera shutter and applied dithering of 10 pixels between each frame to reduce thermal noise without having to apply LENR in camera or dark frames. However, the temperature was -16° C this night so thermal noise was likely low anyway! But the dithering doesn’t hurt! All images were stacked, aligned and mean combined in Photoshop with the filtered set blended with a Lighten blend mode. Taken from home November 11, 2020, using the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount.

Also designated Sharpless 171, this is a young irregular emission nebula and star forming region of about 40 light-years across, located some 3,300 light-years away at the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus.

Cosmic pillars of cold molecular gas and clouds of dark dust lie within. Powering the nebular glow are the young, hot stars of the Berkeley 59 cluster. This includes one of the hottest stars discovered in the vicinity of our Sun, namely BD+66 1673, an eclipsing binary system containing a very bright star with a luminosity ~100000 times that of the Sun.

Its been a while since my last astro image due to short summer nights, the mainly bad weather since then and work and other commitments, but good to get posting again.

The data for this image was gathered a few months back over 6 separate nights during June through August 2012, just took a while to get to the processing!

Tech details below:

Skywatcher MN190 (@F5.3)

Mount - EQ6

Starlight Xpress SXVR-H18 @ -20 degs

QHY5 PHD guiding, guidesope Celestron ED80

Ha - Baader 7nm

- 20x15min bin1x1

S2 - Baader 8nm

- 16x15min bin2x2

O3 - Baader 8nm

- 16x15min bin2x2

Total time 13h

HST mapping: Red - SII, Green - Ha, Blue - OIII

Captured in Nebulosity 2

Calibration, stack and DDP in Images Plus

Curves + all other processing PS CS3

ROG Class 37/6 No.37601 Perseus with Class 37/7 No.37884 Cepheus on the rear at March West Jct on 6th July 2023 working 5L46 06:26 Derby RTC-Ely Papworth hauling Barrier vehicles No.6346 and No.6344.

From Wikipedia: NGC 6946, (also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, Arp 29, and Caldwell 12), is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 18 million light-years away, in the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus. It was discovered by William Herschel on September 9, 1798. NGC 6946 is highly obscured by interstellar matter of the Milky Way galaxy, as it is quite close to the galactic plane. The diameter of the galaxy is approximately 40,000 light-years or just about a third of the size of the Milky Way.

Tech Specs: Meade 12” LX-90, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro, 59 x 60 second exposures, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using Sequence Generator Pro and processed using PixInsight. Image date: June 14, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

SH2-132, known as The Lion Nebula, is a rich Hydrogen Alpha, Oiii region with star clusters, emission nebulae, and dark dust regions. Located in the southern portion of the constellation Cepheus, it is roughly 10,00 light-years away.

I spent the last three nights imaging the Lion Nebula and another target (in between clouds) using the Plan mode in ASIAir. I used the William Optics FLT132 with the FLAT8 reducer (0.7x) and it just about cover most of the nebula.

I used the ZWO ASI2600MC Pro with the Antlia ALP-T 5nm dual band filter. I think I managed to get more detail than I did before with the FLT91, so I'm happy with this image. Unfortunately the weather forecast is now cloudy for the next week+, so I've decided to process what I have (over 11 hours) and publish it.

Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2.

See SHO without stars here: flic.kr/p/2q7qVN1

More acquisition details and other versions in Astrobin: astrob.in/1sqlxz/0/

Thanks for looking!!

Clear Skies

Eduardo

Here is a quick shot of the star called Alderamin (Alpha Cephei), the brightest star in the constellation Cepheus in the Northern Hemisphere. Due to the precession of the Earth, this star will eventually replace Polaris as the North Star in the year 7500 AD.

Tech Specs: Sky Watcher Esprit 120ED, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO ASI290MC and ASI071MC-Pro, ZWO AAPlus, ZWO EAF. 5 x 30 seconds at -10C plus darks and flats. Image Date: 19 Sep 2021. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

37884 'Cepheus' passes Mickleton on 11-2-22 with 5Q94 10:31 Wimbledon Park Carriage Sidings Depot to Long Marston stock move. Conveying former South Western Railway EMUs 456024, 456009 & 456014 for storage.

It must be me, but I had only time to take this working and had missed 50008 earlier which ran in sun pretty much everywhere. Good to meet Martin Loader and Dave Gommersall and a couple of other regulars.

After all the light was not to bad!

I had intended to get the Worcester to Long Marston leg at Pershore but was stuck in traffic and arrived just as it was running through the platforms ironically in half sun!

Rail Operations Group (ROG) 37611 'Pegasus' and 37884 'Cepheus' accelerate past Waterbeach, working the VSTP 0P37 1448 Cambridge L.H.S. to Norwich C.Pt. T.&R.S.M.D light loco move.

37884 split from 37611 in Ely Reception Sidings. 37611 carrying on to Norwich as 0P37 and 884 starting from Ely, instead of Cambridge LHS, as 0R57 back to Leicester LIP.

ROG Class 37/7 No.37884 Cepheus with Class 465 No.465245 at March working 5Q25 11:02 Ely Papworth-Masborough-Booths scrap move. 10th April 2025

Sharpless 2-132 is a very faint emission type nebula on the Cepheus/Lacerta border.

It is related to Cep OB1, whose distance is given as 10,000 to 12,000 light-years, thus it is located in the Perseus arm of our Galaxy, and measures more than 250 light years in extent.

My really first light with the new equipment for this summer!!!

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Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo

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 HA 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm, 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: 4542x3382

Dates: Aug. 1, 2018, Aug. 2, 2018, Aug. 4, 2018

Frames:

Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 95x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 31x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 18x10" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 40x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 14.0 hours

Avg. Moon age: 20.27 days

Avg. Moon phase: 68.89%

Astrometry.net job: 2182743

RA center: 334.622 degrees

DEC center: 55.999 degrees

Pixel scale: 1.470 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 89.501 degrees

Field radius: 1.156 degrees

Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain

Data source: Backyard

Summary from Wikipedia: Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans about 100 light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon.

Details:

6nm HA: 124x240s, Gain 300

6nm OIII: 131x240s, Gain 300

Camera: ASI1600MM Pro

Scope: AstroTech AT6RC

Filters: Astronomik 6nm Ha/OIII

Mount: Atlas EQG

Processed in Pixinsight

Bortle class 4 light pollution area

van den Berg (vdB) 152 is an elongated 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 reddisih color is largely due to light scattering off dust particles within the cloud.

Date of shoot: 24/11/16

L: 27 subs @900s

RGB: 8 subs @300s

Camera Starlight Express SXVR-H694

Sample Rate 0.98 asp at 1*1 , 1.97 asp at 2*2

Filter Wheel : Starlight Express Mini Wheel

Mount : Avalon fast Linear

Scope: Orion Optics UK AG10

Filters : Astrodon LRGB

ROG/Europhoenix 37800 "Cassiopeia" & 37884 "Cepheus" approach Cardiff Central on the DML working 0W78 11.04 Leicester L.I.P. - Cardiff Brickyard Sidings.

Sharpless 2-132, the Lion Nebula, is a dim emission nebula on the border of Cepheus and Lacerta. Imaged in narrowband from SRO in California:

Scope: FSQ-106ED

Mount: Paramount ME

Camera: QSI683

Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, OII, SII

Guiding: QSI OAG + Lodestar

Image scale: 2.094 arcsec/pixel

Exposures: 27x1800s Ha, 12x1800s OIII, 19x1800s SII (17 hrs)

Processing: PixInsight 1.8

22 hours in total.

Red 13x300s bin 2x2

Green 15x300s bin 2x2

Blue 15x300s bin 2x2

Ha 22x1800s bin 1x1

OIII 22x1200s bin 1x1

APM TMB 152 F8 LZOS, 10 Micron GM2000HPS, QSI6120ws8

IC1396 is a large nebula in Cepheus, with Herschel's Garnet Star on the left edge, and the Elephant's Trunk descending from the top.

This image was 43 x 3min exposures, taken from Frenchman Coulee, using a full-spectrum modified Canon 6D and a Radian Raptor 61 with a quad-band filter.

Some say the Iris Nebula in Cepheus reminds them of a flower, however, to me this reflection nebula looks like an eye peeking through a keyhole of interstellar dust. NGC 7023, as it is also called, contains an extremely young star V380 Cep, whose bright blue light is reflected by the surrounding dust.

On the left an extended star forming region, the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex, is located. Known as the Ghost Nebula, the peculiar shapes of these nebulae are signs of early stages of star formation.

This is an experiment, combining new luminance data from my QHY600L with old RGB data, taken with my DSLR:

RGB:

Stack of 100 exposures of 4 minutes each at ISO 1600. Taken on July 28th and August 20th 2020 with a Nikon D750.

Luminance:

Stack of 90 exposures of 4 minutes each, taken on August 24th 2022 with a QHY600L camera.

Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 telescope on EQ6-R, Autoguiding with MGEN-3. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Starnet2 and Photoshop.

This an image of the Iris Nebula, catalogued as NGC 7023 or Caldwell 4. It is a bright reflection nebula and is found in the constellation of Cepheus which is riding high in our Northern skies at the moment.

This is the first time I have attempted to image this object and I have wanted to try for quite a while.

It is named for the Iris flower - probably because of its blue colour. The dusty nebula material surrounds a hot, young star which provides the illumination. The dominant blue colour is a characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight.

These dusty blue petals of the nebula are some 6 light-years across. The whole system lies at a distance of some 1300 light-years from us.

Extensive fields of surrounding dark interstellar dust are visible in the image.

Two bright, beautifully contrasting stars are visible towards the bottom left of the image. The left orange-red star is T Cephei, a Mira-type variable star. The star on the right is Alfirk (Beta Cephei), this is also a variable star.

Imaged during the evening of 10th November in clear but deteriorating conditions as shower clouds moved in and guiding was compromised!

I had to trash a number of subs. due to the aforementioned cloud and would have liked to have acquired more - the usual story! However, I am reasonably happy to have got quite a lot of dark dust detail given the fact that I have to deal with a lot of light pollution here - floodlights from council sports facilities and neighbour's security lights are the chief hazards!!

Imaged with a focal reduced Skywatcher Esprit 120ED scope and my ZWO 2600MC camera. I used an IDAS LPS D2 filter.

Calibrated subs. with Temp. matched Darks, Flats and Dark Flats.

38 x 300s Subs

Many thanks for looking!

A rarely imaged dark cloud in Cepheus, lying about 7500 light years from earth.

Data captured in 2017 from SRO in California

Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL

Mount: AstroPhysics 1100 AE

Camera: FLI PL16803

Focuser: Optec

Filters: Astrodon

Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope

Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel

Processing: PixInsight 1.8

Total exposure time: ~39 hours.

L: 68 x 600s

R,G,B: 31,24,28 x 1200s

*Image processing credit: Daniele Malleo

*Data Acquisition Credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Rick Stevenson, Jose Mtanous, Scott Johnson, Augusto Hernandez

Rail Operations Group 37884 "Cepheus" charges towards Abergavenny station hauling scrap yard bound former Strathclyde EMU 314206 working 5Q76 22.26 Shields T.M.D. [E] - Newport Docks [Simsgroup]

ROG/Europhoenix 37800 "Cassiopeia" & 37884 "Cepheus" make a short trip top"n" tailing TFW Flex unit 769007 working 5Q78 17.03 Canton Brickyard Sidings - Canton Pullmans via platform 2

A Tarted up 37884 'Cepheus' hauls 'Networker' 465912 through Askham tunnel on 23rd September 2022. The service was bound for Doncaster having originated at Ely

This image shows Sharpless 239 (Sh2-239 or LBN 821), a reflection nebula surrounded by LDN 1551, a dark star-forming cloud of gas and dust. The region stretches for nearly 3 light-years near the southern end of the Taurus molecular cloud, a region where active star formation is taking place, some 453 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus, near the border of the constellation Perseus.

LDN 1551 contains a total amount of material equivalent to about 50 times the mass of the Sun, and inside it you will find a dozen of pre-main sequence stars. Star formation activity has caused the mix of dust and colors in the nebulae. (Ref: annesastronomynews.com)

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO AS2600mc-Pro running at -10C, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, 5 hours 6 minutes using 60 second guided exposures, darks from the library and flats at the end of imaging, focused with a ZWO EAF, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro. Processed using PixInsight. Image Date: November 21, 2022. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

NGC 6946 Spiral galaxy in Cepheus

Image taken remotely at the IC Astronomy observatory at Oria, Spain.

Skywatcher Esprit 150mm refractor, QSI 6120 CCD camera, Paramount MX equatorial mount, Astrodon LRGB filters.

Exposures:

Lum: 84 x 10m

Red: 12 x 10m

Green: 12 x 10m

Blue: 12 x 10 m

Processed with Maxim DL, PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop CC2019.

© Ian King & Nik Szymanek

ROG Class 37 37884 ''Cepheus" heads north at Winwick,near Warrington on 0s07 Leicester LIP - Mossend HS on 29/07/2018

37884 "Cepheus" (Rail Operations Group).

5Q26 : 1059 MO STP Gillingham E.M.U Depot - Worksop Up Reception, which was formed of Southeastern trains units 466004, 466016 & 465245 for "warm storage".

Welwyn North - 1336 (3 late, due to late 1N85 delaying 1T32 & 2C26) - 21/06/21.

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. I added in labels on the mosaic for the constellations, and major nebulas and star clusters.

Surrounding the panorama is a collage of close-up images of the major emission nebulas (and one dark nebula) pointing to the area in the wide-field mosaic. The close-ups were shot with various astrographic telescopes such as the William Optics RedCat 51mm and Sharpstar 61, 76 and 94mm refractors, usually employing filters such as the Optolong L-eNhance and IDAS NBX.

The background panorama was shot on October 30, 2021, but the close-ups were shot on various nights over two years from 2019 to 2021. The panorama 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.

The Lion Nebula, or Sh2-132 has an extended emission nebula visible in the constellation of Cepheus. Can you spot the MANE and the TAIL of the lion? This nebula is located on the southern edge of Cepheus, at a distance of almost 10,400 light years.

Tech Specs: Williams Optics REDCAT51, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro running at -20C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, Optolong L-eNhance filter (2”), 2 hours of 300 second exposures with dark/flat frames, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro running v1.5 Beta software. Image date: November 7, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle 4 Zone).

Here is a wide field view of IC 1396 and the Elephant Trunk Nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The section called the Elephant Trunk Nebula is on the bottom and is an active star forming region. This emission nebula is about 2,400 light years away from Earth. This represents three hours of exposure time.

Tech Specs: Tech Specs: Williams Optics Redcat 51 APO, Celestron CGEM-DX mount, Canon 6D stock camera, Optolong L-eNhance 2” filter, ISO 3200, 36 x 300 second exposures with dark/bias frames, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Image date: October 24, 2019 and November 2, 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

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ROG 37884 "Cepheus" conveys former Mersyrail EMU's 508126 + 507026 to the scrap man working 5Q78 11.55 Birkenhead North E.M.U.D. - Newport Docks [Simsgroup]

Located in the constellation Cepheus, the Cave nebula is a nebula complex that contains emission, reflection and dark nebulosity. The nebula complex is located about 2400 light-years from Earth.

First test using the Takahashi CCA250 astrograph from my home observatory. Located in Mechelen, the skies are not great, suffering from severe light pollution (Bortle 6).

The image is composed of 14 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC color camera using a Takahashi CCA-250 astrograph, riding on a Software Bisque Paramount ME II.

24.6.2021.

ROG Europhoenix liveried Class 37 No 37884 'Cepheus' works 5Q26, the 10.59 Gillingham EMUD - Worksop Up Reception Sidings unit move.

The train has just come off the ECML at Retford and is making its way onto the Lincoln - Sheffield line.

SouthEastern Class 465 EMU No's 465017 and 465019 were being taken to Harry Needle's Depot at Worksop for storage.