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Making a welcome return following a major bogie overhaul including wheelsets. Rail Operations Group Class 37 37884 "Cepheus" leads the final set of GWR "Castle" Mk3s with 5V84 Doncaster RFS Engineering Wabtec to Laira T&RSMD taken near Besford
Faster than I could get a decent focus lock on for...
With another 2 Class 317 units in 317507 and 510 destined for their doom, Rail Operations Group Class 37 diesel locomotive 37884 'Cepheus' leads the consist through Stansted Mountfitchet whilst on the working of 5Q76 08:59 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup).
A noticable burning smell combined with smoke also became obvious as the train passed, which resulted in a 30 minute stop beyond the station for fault investigation, believed to have been a dragging brake on the consist 01/03/23
Northfield, OH
September 15, 2023
Also visible: Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), Dormouse Cluster (NGC 7510(), Northern Lagoon Nebula (NGC 7538). Salt and Pepper Cluster (M52, NGC 7054), emission nebula in Cepheus (IC 1470)
Equipment--
Telescope: RedCat 51, 250mm focal length
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
Guide scope: Williams Optics 50mm guide scope
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM-S
Software: NINA, PHD2
Imaging--
Lights: 43x300s
Darks, Flats, DarkFlats, Bias: assorted
Sensor temp: -10.0
Filter: Optolong L-Pro
Sky: Bortle 6 (nominal)
Post processing--
Software: PixInsight, Photoshop
Europhoenix 37884 "Cepheus" passes through the antiquated GWR Semaphore signalling on the approach to Abergavenny whilst hauling set GC02 complete with DVT 82200 (all ex Grand Central, soon to be Transport for Wales) as 5Q42 15:12 Eastleigh T&RSMD - Crewe LNWR on 04/5/2022.
SH2-132 is a very faint emission nebula in Cepheus. Without pristine skies, it is quite difficult to capture without narrowband filters. The gas is ionized by 2 Wolf-Rayet stars: HD 211564 and HD 211853. SH2-132 is located roughly 10 000 light-years from Earth.
Color image taken at the remote observatory from the E-Eye site in Spain.
The image is composed of 13 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC color camera using a Takahashi Epsilon 180-ED Astrograph, riding unguided on a 10 micron GM-2000.
A collection of bright star clusters and colourful nebulas on the border of Cassiopeia and Cepheus.
The prominent star cluster at left is Messier 52. The emission nebula to the lower right of it is NGC 7635, aka the Bubble Nebula; above and to the right of it is the small but intense nebula NGC 7538. At upper right of the frame is Sharpless 2-155, aka the Cave Nebula. The diffuse nebula at bottom is Sharpless 2-157, aka the Lobster Claw Nebula, with the small star cluster NGC 7510 near the end of one of its claws. The small star cluster at lower right made yellow by interstellar dust absorption is NGC 7419.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. No special star masks were employed in processing to enhance star colours or process them separately.
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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
(275 km by road north of Toronto)
* Temperature 13 degrees C.
Total exposure time: 5 minutes
130 degrees of the northern portion of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and some 80,000 stars, are seen in this wide angle image, running from the constellation Cepheus at upper left, through Cygnus and Aquila, and Scutum to Sagittarius at the lower right. The Milky Way bulges noticeably at the right side, toward the centre of the galaxy in Sagittarius (out of view to the right).
A little left of centre is the shocking pink, distinctively-shaped North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. For a telephoto view of this nebula from July 26 this year, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/20012353576/
Just to the right of the North America Nebula lies a region of glowing red hydrogen gas surrounding the star Gamma Cygni. For a telephoto view of this region, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/19740805819/
For another wide angle view of the Milky Way with this same 14 mm lens, made on July 24, click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/19412645383/
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Nikkor AF-S 14-24 mm f/2.8G ED lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head
I am practising using this small tracking mount to get ready for Helen's and my three-week trip to Australia starting September 3, when I hope to have several nights under the southern stars in the Australian Outback. Here is a photo of the mount:
www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/20441137015/
Five stacked frames; each frame:
14 mm focal length; ISO 5000; 60 seconds exposure at f/4.5
(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)
Stacked in RegiStar;
Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, sharpening)
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37884 'Cepheus' passes Purton with a 5Q76 11.04 Ilford EMUD-Lydney Up Goods Loop, delivering class 315 unit No. 315856 to the Dean Forest Railway on 23/12/22.
NGC6946 sometimes referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years or 7.72 megaparsecs, similar to the distance of M101 (NGC 5457) in the constellation Ursa Major. Both were once considered to be part of the Local Group, but are now known to be among the dozen bright spiral galaxies near the Milky Way but beyond the confines of the Local Group. NGC 6946 lies within the Virgo Supercluster.
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. It is heavily obscured by interstellar matter due to its location close to the galactic plane of the Milky Way. Due to its prodigious star formation it has been classified as an active starburst galaxy.
Various unusual celestial objects have been observed within NGC 6946. This includes the so-called 'Red Ellipse' along one of the northern arms that looks like a super-bubble or very large supernova remnant, and which may have been formed by an open cluster containing massive stars. There are also two regions of unusual dark lanes of nebulosity, while within the spiral arms several regions appear devoid of stars and gaseous hydrogen, some spanning up to two kiloparsecs across. A third peculiar object, discovered in 1967, is now known as "Hodge's Complex". This was once thought to be a young supergiant cluster, but in 2017 it was conjectured to be an interacting dwarf galaxy superimposed on NGC 6946.
Equipment used
ZWO ASI2600MC camera cooled to -20c
Sky Watcher 150 PDS telescope
ASIAIR Pro
ASI 120mm Guide Scope and Camera
EQ6-R Pro Mount
Optolong L Pro Filter
89 x 300 second exposures stacked and processed in Pixinsight.
This is NGC 7380 The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus, and I imaged this on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as it was clear and I'm a sad bugger. :)
Quite small for my setup, and very difficult to process, this is 67 x 300 second subs for just over 5 and a half hours. Looks much better in the Hubble Palette, but I can't do that! :)
Happy New Year guys :)
NGC 7023 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. The nebula contains at its centre an extremely young star which is believed to have burst into life just 5,500 years ago. Since still incredibly young there is plenty of local dust surrounding the star and when starlight hits the dust it's reflected to become the visible nebula.
The image was taken with a GSO RC8 (Ritchey-Chretien) reflector with an ASI1600mm-cool camera using LRGB filters. The image consists of around 150 luminance sub images and 50 each of RGB all of 2 minutes duration.
Image processing was performed in Astro-Art and Pixinsight.
The latest astro shot from my backyard is a close neighbour to the Elephants trunk nebula in Cepheus situated near the North celestial pole and has the look of a Genie . Around 3000 light years away it has immense towers and ridges of Hydrogen where stars are being formed with some breaking away across the central blue oxygen (Oiii) area. A bright cluster of new stars is seen towards top right known as Berkley 59.
20 hours of narrowband @600 seconds
- 20. Sulpher, Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Antlia 3nm
Esprit 100 550mm
ZWO asi 1600
Heq5 stellar drive 5
PixInsight
Durham UK Bortle 5
4 nights April / May 21
Hauled by ROG Class 37 No., 37884 'Cepheus', former Networker Express Class 365 No. 365509 is on a one way trip to the breakers yard as part of 5Q76 0829 Crewe South Yard - Newport Docks (Sims Sidings) on 23rd November 2021. The ensemble is seen passing alongside a muddy River Severn at Purton. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Rail Operations Group (ROG) / Europhoenix 37884 'Cepheus' passes Cambridge with Ex Great Northern 365519 working the 5Q54 1615 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Hornsey E.M.U.D.
Cep NGC6939 NGC6946
Fecha: 05-08-2021, de 23h06m a 01h02m U.T.
Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara
Temperatura ambiente: +15.5ºC
Cámara: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Óptica: Telescopio refractor Skywatcher ED120, de 120 mm de diámetro y 900 mm de distancia focal (f/7.5)
Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25
Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor Orion 80mm de diámetro a f/5.
Filtros: Ninguno.
Exposiciones:
21 imágenes de 300s cada una, a 0ºC y 100 de ganancia
en total, 1h45min.
30 darks de 300s, a 0ºC y 100 de ganancia
30 bias de 0.001s, a 0ºC y 100 de ganancia
Software: DeepSkyStacker v.4.2.0
PixInsight LE 1.0
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Astronomy Tools v.1.6
The large emission nebula in Cepheus catalogued as IC1396 (though that number also applies to the star cluster contained within the nebula) and which also contains the dark feature at right popularly known as the Elephant Trunk Nebula, or formally vdB 142. The dark nebula at bottom is B160'; the dark nebula above centre is B161. The red giant star Mu Cephei is at top. The view is rendered in monochrome as it was shot on a moonlit night through a deep red filter in the light of H-alpha emission, prominent in such nebulas.
This is a stack of 10 x 16-minute exposures with the SharpStar 94mm apo refractor at f/4.5 (with its reducer/flattener), and with the Canon Ra at ISO 1600 and equipped with an Astronomik clip-in 12nm Hydrogen-Alpha filter which lets through only very deep red light. Half the exposures were taken with a waning Moon lighting the sky. Guided with the MGEN autoguider applying a dithering shift between each exposure to eliminate thermal noise when stacking the images. (Each sub-frame had a lot of thermal speckling, as when shooting in H-a with a colour camera only 1/4 of the pixels, the red ones, are recording any signal.) No darks or LENR employed.
All stacking and alignment was with Photoshop. Faint nebulosity was brought out with luminosity-masked curves created with Lumenzia. ON1 NoNoise AI applied to the base stack. A Dynamic Contrast filter from ON1 2022 applied to a stamped upper layer helped snap up the dark nebulosity, as well as using a Paint Contrast layer (like dodging and burning) from TK8 Actions. A mild application of Russell Croman's StarXTerminator plug-in backed off the stars within the nebulosity to further enhance the nebula structures. StarXTerminator was applied selectively via the use of non-destructive layers, blend modes and masks. A mild colour grade was applied as a finishing touch to add the blue tint to the darks.
An LRGB image comprising of:
L- 1020m
R - 390m
G - 420m
B - 420m
Total of 37 hours - 30 minutes
30 minute subs.
Acquisition - Planewave 12.5" CDK, PME, QSI 583 8WSG CCD, Lodestar auto guider, TSX, Maxim DL.
Processing - Pixinsight 1.8
SH2-136 is an illuminated dark nebula, about 1,200 light-years away, towards the constellation Cepheus.
The "Cosmic Question Mark" is made up of two emission nebulae: NGC 7822 is at the top of the image, and SH2-170 is the circular nebula at the bottom.
NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation Cepheus. It is about 2,935 light years from earth with a diameter of 300 light years.
SH2-170 is 7,500 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered in the late 1950s on the 48 inch Schmidt telescope photo plates of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey by the American astronomer Stewart Sharpless. The nebula is a diffuse H-II region ionized by a single main sequence O-type star visible at the center.
The image spans about 4.3 x 5 degrees and was shot as an 8 panel mosaic through an Ha filter with about 5 hours of exposure time for each panel.
Rio Rancho NM Bortle 5 zone, August-September, 2024
William Optics Redcat 51
ZWO 183mm pro
ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini
Optolong Ha
ZWO ASI Air Pro
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Darks GraXpert dithering
Gain 111 at -10C
Processed in DSS GraXpert and PS
camera: ZWO ASI 183MM-Pro + EFW7
filters: 31-mm unmounted Astrodon LRGB and 5-nm Ha/O3
lens: Canon EF 135 mm f/4
mount: Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6
guider: Lodestar X2 on 50-mm f/3.2 guidescope
exposure: L 30x1min + RGB 15x1min + Ha 6x10min (all 1x1)
location: backyard (severe light pollution)
software: TheSkyX Pro, Pixinsight, PS CC
date: 23 Dec 2019
NGC 7023 is a reflection nebula located in the west central section of the far northern constellation of Cepheus. This nebula contains at its center an extremely young star named V380 Cep (mag. +7.1), which is believed to have burst into life just 5,500 years ago. Since incredibly young there is plenty of local dust surrounding the star, and when starlight hits the dust it’s reflected to become the visible nebula. There are faint hints of red color surrounding the central star. This is evidence of some hydrogen emission taking place. Its unusual structure gave rise to the name, the Iris Nebula. It lies 1,300 light-years away and is six light-years across.
Telescope: 16″ f3.75 Dream Scope
Camera: FLI ML16803
Mount: ASA DDM85
Exposure: 9 hours (55x300s L + 3x16x300s RGB)
Date: April 2019
Location: Southern Alps, France
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This is an extended version of my previous released image. I had taken during the night at a later time more imagery of another part of the milky way and mosaiced them together now.
Original description:
Currently I'm enjoying my holidays in Vandans, Austria. Just before this holiday I could pick up a Nikon D810a from Nikon HQ to try it out for 3 weeks. Of course I don't say no to that. This is a brand new camera that was handpicked and calibrated manually by Nikon (a so-called QC model).
Two nights ago it was clear and I wanted to try out the camera. I doubted what to do, put it on my scope (knowing I have some trouble with the flatness of the field, and need some calibration time) or trying to do the Milky Way. Until now I never made really nice Milky Way images, so I decided to go for this challenge.
Also I took my new Skywatcher Star Adventurer, so I could work nicely stand-alone, without any further equipment. I decided to go for wide field with a Nikon 14-24mm that I got with the camera.
So I started with the polar alignment of the Star Adventurer. That goes really well, but I did find out you need to do this for every image series as it is moved very easily when changing the camera position.
After focussing I started with 60s images at ISO800 to see what the D810a showed. I was very impressed. The Milky Way just jumped into view and was very well visible. Now I have to say it's quite dark here with only some lights at the horizon.
I took about an hour of imagery, 60 images. After processing, alignment, stacking and putting back the background (that was lost by the stacking) and stretching I got the following result. I had never seen the Milky Way like this, and so I enjoyed the full night...
Camera: Nikon D810a
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Exposure: 50x60s ISO800 14mm f/3.5 + 8x300s ISO800
Elephant Trunk Nebula IC 1396 - IC 1396 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away. It is named for the dark area in the center of the image.
Tools:: ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, Optolong L-eNhance filter
Sigma 150-600mm F/5-6.3 lens @ 200mm F/5.6
Imaged from the red zone, Bortle 6
16 subs @ 300 seconds, 20 darks , 20 Flats
80 minutes total exposure
Bright nebula in Cepheus.
Mount: Astro_Physics 1100 GTO
Optics: Takahashi Epsilon 180
Camera: ZWO ASI6200 MM pro
Filters: Astrodon LRGB.
150x120s Luminance
30ea 120s RGB
Gain zero, offset 40 sensor at -10c.
Shark nebula LDN1235 is a dark / Reflection nebula located in Cepheus constellation. It’s composed of interstellar dust that hiding stars behind it. Gear setup: Celestron RASA 8 f/2, iOptron GEM45, ZWO 30 Mini + ZWO120MM-S, ZWO 2600MC @0C, Optolong L-Pro 2”. Light subs 120 x 300sec, total exposure 10 hours. Captured by NINA, PHD2. Stacked in APP and Processed in PI. Imaged from sky Bortle class 4.
Rattling through Lea Marston, 37884 Cepheus and 37901 Mirrlees Pioneer lead 9Z99 Sutton Coldfield to Chaddesden Sidings, with Eastern Rail Services Mk3s (10237 & 12091) in tow. The working was in connection with some Emergency Services Training in a tunnel rescue scenario.
A portion of the star-forming nebula IC 1396, or the Elephant Trunk Nebula in the constellation Cepheus. 3-panel mosaic, each 20 300 sec. exposures (5 hours total exposure). Explore Scientific 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC camera, dual narrow-band fillter (H-alpha and [O III]), iOptron CEM25P mount, ASIAir Pro controller, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Lightroom.
Elephant Trunks Nebula (SHO) - Located approximately 2,400 Light Years away in the Constellation of Cepheus is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396. The nebula gets its name for its appearance of looking like an elephants trunk. The trunk conceals many young protostars that are in the process of forming.
Shot on a ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro.
TS-Optics CF-APO 90 mm f/6 FPL55 Triplet
TS Optics 50mm Guide Scope
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro mount
600" Exposures - 31hrs 50mins Integration time.
Edited in Pixinsight & Photoshop
©NebulosityMedia 2022
37884 'Cepheus' rolls into Hereford working a 7W79 12.29 Crewe-Landore TMD, with 37601 on the rear, moving Transport for Wales class 175 No.175107 on 27/06/24.
This colorful skyscape features the dusty, reddish glow of Sharpless catalog emission region Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula. About 2,400 light-years away, the scene lies along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus.
Astronomical explorations of the region reveal that it has formed at the boundary of the massive Cepheus B molecular cloud and the hot, young, blue stars of the Cepheus OB 3 association. The bright rim of ionized hydrogen gas is energized by the radiation from the hot stars, dominated by a bright blue O-type star. Radiation driven ionization fronts are likely triggering collapsing cores and new star formation within. Appropriately sized for a stellar nursery, the cosmic cave is over 10 light-years across. [Source: APOD]
Telescope: TMB92SS
Camera: QSI583ws
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6
Exposures:
90x300s/21x600s L
42x1200s Ha
9x600s R,G,B
Total: 29,5h
Andromeda Rock
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment.[1] Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.
Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men",[2] from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos (sacred marriage), giving rise to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.
Contents [hide]
1Mythology
2Constellations
3Perseus and Andromeda in art
3.1Film
3.2Novels
4Depictions in art
5See also
6Sources
7References
8External links
Mythology[edit]
A small Roman fresco from Pompeii
In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia.
Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen. The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast.
Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa. After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible (for he was wearing Hades's helm), and killed the sea monster. He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.[3]
Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.
At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]
After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
Constellations[edit]
Andromeda (1869) Edward Poynter
Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.
Four constellations are associated with the myth. Viewing the fainter stars visible to the naked eye, the constellations are rendered as:
A huge man wearing a crown, upside down with respect to the ecliptic (the constellation Cepheus)
A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down (the constellation Cassiopeia)
A maiden, chained up, facing or turning away from the ecliptic (the constellation Andromeda), next to Pegasus
A whale just under the ecliptic (the constellation Cetus)
Other constellations related to the story are:
Perseus
The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her
The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded
Perseus and Andromeda in art[edit]
Cesari: Perseus saving Andromeda, 1596, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times, Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art, including Greek vases. Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera, Persée, also dramatizes the myth.
Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, which typically show the moment of rescue, with Andromeda usually still chained, and often naked or nearly so. Examples include: one of Titian's poesies (Wallace Collection), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael (Louvre), Veronese (Rennes), many versions by Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau. From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest. Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter’d, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain’d,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To fit the naked foot of poesy;
Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress
Of every chord, and see what may be gain’d
By ear industrious, and attention meet:
Misers of sound and syllable, no less
Than Midas of his coinage, let us be
Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown;
So, if we may not let the Muse be free,
She will be bound with garlands of her own.
“”
"If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d"
John Keats (1795-1821)[6]
The Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino composed an hour-long operatic drama called Perseo e Andromeda in 2000.
Film[edit]
In 1973, an animated film called Perseus (20 minutes) was made in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet animated film collection called Legends and mуths of Ancient Greece.[7][8]
The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes (notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group). Thetis was indeed a Nereid and also the future mother of Achilles. Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis' son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa. In the film, the monster is called a kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone. Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.
Andromeda also features in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 version. Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Alexa Davalos. The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy. In the end of the sequel, Perseus and Andromeda begin a relationship.
In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus. In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.
Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of "Prometheus Academy" which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.
Novels[edit]
In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, there are a few references to Andromeda. The most obvious is that the series' lead villains have a cruise ship which serves as their headquarters and is called The Princess Andromeda.
Andromeda is the main character in Harry Turtledove's short story "Miss Manners' Guide to Greek Missology", published in Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chainmail series of humorous feminist fantasy collections, and reprinted in other anthologies afterwards. It is a satire filled with role reversals, puns, and deliberate anachronisms relating to pop culture.
Andromeda is Anna's full name in Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, which was turned into a movie in 2010. In the novel there are several references to mythology, as Anna's dad Brian is an astronomer in his free time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)
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Object: NGC7380 & The Wizard Nebula (2012)
NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula or Sharpless 142 Sh2-142) is an open cluster with associated nebulosity located in the constellation of Cepheus. It is about 7200 light years from earth. This was done in the HST palette which is accomplished by combining sub frames using three narrowband filters that capture light produced by glowing hydrogen (Ha), oxygen (OIII) and sulfur (SII) present in the nebula. Green is assigned to hydrogen, blue to oxygen and red to the sulfur.
Acquisition Date: 10/21/2012
Camera: SBIG ST8300M @ -12°C
Telescope: Orion 8-Inch f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph
Mount: Losmandy G11 with Gemini II
Guidescope: 50mm finder/guider
Guide Camera: Orion SSAG
Filters:
-Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 8 x 15min. (120min.)
-Oxygen III (OIII): 5 x 15min (75min)
-Sulfur II (SII): 5 x 15min (75min)
Total Exposure: 270min. (4.5hr)
Limiting Magnitude: 5.1
Comments: Baader Planetarium RCC I Rowe Coma Corrector used.
ROG Class 37 , 37884 "Cepheus" Seen at Derby RTC
The locomotive is owned by Rail Operations Group
She first entered service on 7th November 1963 and was allocated to Landore Depot (87E) as Pre Tops D6883
In March 1974 the locomotive received the number 37183
By November 1988 the locomotive now carried 37884
The train carried the name “Gartcosh” from 1992- 2001
But now carries it’s current name “Cepheus” which it has had since
8th May 2018.
The name “Cepheus” is a constellation in the northern sky,
named after Cepheus, a king of Aethiopia in Greek mythology.
Cepheus was the King of Aethiopia. He was married to Cassiopeia and was the father of Andromeda, both of whom are immortalized as modern day constellations along with Cepheus.
Iris Nebula in Cepheus
While comparing my most recent QHY10 OSC "test image" of the Iris to older images, I was inspired to try an processing experiment.
I combined several of my older NGC7023 images by using several blending techniques in Photoshop CS6. This picture contains images from 3 different QHY cameras over the course of 2 years. QHY9M,QHY10 OSC & a QHY23M.
2 of the 3 images used can be seen here:
7/15/15 flic.kr/p/w6q8SY
10/3/13 flic.kr/p/gmaZxF
Here is a closeup on the Ghost Nebula from my recent image. The Ghost Nebula (VdB141) is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. The ghost nebula gets its name because of it's shape. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - Sky-watcher Esprit 120 with .77 reducer
Imaging Camera- Qhy268m
Mount - Sky-watcher EQ6-R Pro
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixinsight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
L-150x60sec
R-150x60sec
G-150x60sec
B-150x60sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 10 hours
A collection of faint nebulas in southern Cepheus, including the Wizard Nebula.
This visually faint emission nebula NGC 7380, aka the Wizard Nebula, is at left, while at right is Sharpless 2-135. In between is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The orange star at far right is Zeta Cephei. To be precise, the star cluster embedded in the Wizard is actually NGC 7380, as discovered by Caroline Herschel. Photos reveal the nebula surrounding the cluster.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. The last few exposures were shot through incoming high haze.
While the moon is around I'm trying out different processing methods. This is my hubble(ish) version of NGC 7822, I say "ish" as I have no Sii data and never likely to unless I move to a better location. I've created a synthetic green using a method from "starrywonders" website...
For "Equipment, Imaging & Process/Guiding Software" details see Bi-Colour version of this image.
The light was so good for this one that I thought I'd upload a closer crop of 37884 "Cepheus" as it heads over the river at Newport with another load bound for the scrap yard. 5Q42 09:50 Ely Papworth Sidings MLF to Newport Docks Sims Group
This is the Iris Nebula (NGC 7023 or Caldwell 4) in the constellation, Cepheus. Contrary to most nebula shots that I take, this one was shot in normal RGB, not narrowband. This reflection nebula is about 1300 light years away and roughly 6 light years across. Take special note of the "dark" region that spreads out around the nebula... that's also part of the dust of NGC 7023.
The shot, itself, came from 3 hours of RGB, plus about 2 hours of "Luminance" (basically no filter). Telescope: Skywatcher 150PDS. Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro with ZWO EFW.
Sharpless 154 is a large emission nebula (HII region) located approximately 3,250 light-years away in Cepheus. The nebula is mainly red so it works very well with the hydrogen-alpha filter. The open cluster on the right is NGC 7419.
Camera: Moravian G2 8300
Filters: 31mm unmounted Optolong
Optic: Televue 102 f/7
Mount: Ioptron CEM60 HP
Autoguider: camera Magzero 5m on SW 70/500, Phd guiding
Frames Ha 7nm: 23X600sec - RGB: 5X600sec each - Bin1 -20°
Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
NGC 7822 and Open cluster NGC 7762
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.
NGC 7762 Open cluster
Details
Mount: SW EQ6R
Telescope: Esprit 100ED + Riccardi x 0.75
Camera: ASI 2600Mc Pro
Filter: IDAS LPS-P2
Exposition
Lights - 144 x 100S
Darks - No
Flats - No
Location: North Madrid
ASI 294 MC PRO.
72 ED Skywatcher con reductor/aplanador 0.85.
Star Adventurer 2i.
Guiado Asi 120mm Mini.
Ganancia 123/ Offset 30 -10ºc
L-Extreme 59x300s
Bortle 8.
PixInsight.
Cederblad 214 is a bright nebula and star-forming region in the wider SH2-171 area in Cepheus. It contains the star cluster Berkeley 59 (bottom-left of centre in this image). The complex is believed to be some 800–1000 parsecs distant, with the younger components aged no more than a few million years.
Within Cederblad 214 is one of the hottest known stars in our stellar neighborhood. With a temperature of almost 45,000 degrees Kelvin, BD+66 1673 is over 100,000 times more luminous than our own Sun. It is fairly unremarkable in this image though, it's below and slightly to the left of the star cluster with a little bit of illuminated shockwave next to it.
Also contained within Cederblad 214 are numerous Bok globules - areas of of condensing gas from which young protostars are created.
A false colour image, Suplhur II emission mapped to red, Hydrogen alpha to green and Oxygen III to blue - the 'Hubble palette'
Finally suitable weather to catch a drag...
With their days in service now at an end, Class 317 units that have been stored at Ely Papworth sidings are now gradually being moved to the Sims scrapyard in Newport (South Wales) to meet their final fate.
Under slightly drizzly skies, Rail Operations Group Class 37 diesel locomotive 37884 'Cepheus' leads former Greater Anglia Class 317 EMUs 317339 and 317340 through Stansted Mountfitchet working 5Q76 08:59 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup) 22/02/23