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Rail Operations Group Class 37 No. 37884 “Cepheus”
Seen outside Loram 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.
Rail Operations Group 37884 'Cepheus' powers past South Marston, Swindon hauling ex Greater Anglia class 317 EMUs 317885 and 317341 for scrap. Luckily running 39 minutes early at this point before the sun went for the rest of the afternoon.
Working was 5Q76 08:00 Ely Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks.
Target:Elephant's Trunk Nebula, IC 1396, Cepheus, 2400ly.
Location:28,29,30 May 2023, St Helens, UK, Bortle 7, 62-80% Moon.
Acquisition:61x 540s L-eXtreme, calibrated with bias, darks, dark-flats and flats. Total integration 9.15 hours.
Equipment:Altair 60EDF, 1x Flat60; Optolong L-eXtreme; ZWO ASI2600MC-Pro, EAF, AM5.
Guiding:Altair MG32mini with ZWO ASI120MMmini.
Software:NINA, PHD2 on Mele Quieter3
Processing:Affinity Photo2 with StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator and HLVG plug ins; Siril, GraXpert, AstroSharp.
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.
The image was taken on August 12 to 15 2020 at the remote observatory at the E-Eye site in Spain. The image was made with the Takahashi FSQ 106 @ f3.6 and a ZWO ASI294MC color camera riding a Paramount MEII. The exposure is composed of 404 exposures of 200 seconds, just over 22 hours of exposure.
The last shot from from the memorable 1Z10 trip to S.Wales.
We could only get as far as Ponytypool, due to traffic conditions and had to make do with a colour light in the absence of semaphores! The rain was still lashing down as the 5Q78 raced through behind 37884'Cepheus' with Unit 314211 in tow bound for Newport Docks, Sims Group.
Having been used recently to take life expired units to Scrapyards 37884 'Cepheus' was chosen to deliver a newbie today in the form of a 'Goblin 710' from Derby to Old Dalby. Running as 5Q58 the ensemble is seen passing Woods Crossing, Frisby, on 5th September 2019 with 47813 'Jack Frost' DoR
The Goblin unit was 710108
This is a detail from Cederblad 214 which is a bright nebula and star-forming region in the wider SH2-171 area in Cepheus. It contains the star cluster Berkeley 59 (right 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 at the bottom, just right of centre 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'
37884 ‘Cepheus’ / 37608 ‘Andromeda’ hauling fire damaged 175101 at Beeston Castle on 5Q99 11:49 Crewe Carriage Shed - Chester D.M.U. Depot on 25/04/23.
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Sharpless 155 is a diffuse nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus, within a larger nebula complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity and is widely known as The Cave Nebula. It lies around 2,400 light years distant.
Imaged over 3 nights, 27th Feb, 1st Mar and 8th Mar 2025.
HEQ5 PRO
RedCat51 WIFD
QHY183C Gain21 Offest76 -20C
Optolong L-eNhance narrowband filter
40 x 900sec subs
Acquisition time 10hrs.
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop 6.
Rail Operations Group class 37 No. 37884 ‘Cepheus’ grumbles through the flat fens in the morning sun hauling Greater Anglian class 317s to scrap, 317885 and 317341, on the approach to Waterbeach working 5Q76 08:00 Ely MLF Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup) running 30 minutes late. 15/02/2023.
I’d tried this location before in the summer with this same loco when the class 317s were being taken to Papworth to storage. The shot didn’t go well as something wasn’t right about it l, not to mention the fact I mucked up the composure but mainly because the vegetation next to the track had grown up making it difficult to see the train. I was wanting to go out for this movement today as it was half term and I had the day free so I was checking Google Maps for good locations when this one came to mind. The spot is taken on the edge of Bannold Road on a grass verge before a field and works well most of the day as the sun position up until about 14:00 this time of year. I had to make sure that the vegetation wasn’t going to be too high this time of year and luckily street view was taken during colder months and showed a lot of of what I knew was there before.
Luckily for the shot, there service was running half an hour late which gave the sun more time to break through the clouds and fog, if it had passed on time, the sun would not have broken through yet. Very happy with how this shot tuned out, I've never had a good shot with this loco so pleased to finally get one. I used my bigger set of steps for this which have 4 steps, I was stood on the highest point, this was necessary to attempt to be more level with the train at this location as the railway is slightly higher than the road. An extra note is the Union Flag positioned above the coupling on the front of 37884, it may not be very visible in my shot as I am aware you can't zoom in very far but I noticed it afterwards and though I best point it out.
ROG/Europhoenix 37884 " Cepheus" & 37800 " Cassiopeia" stands in platform 2 top "n" tailing TFW Flex unit 769007 working 5Q78 17.03 Cardiff Brickyard Sidings - Canton Pullmans as 150283 rests in platform 3 having arrived working 1V17 13.30 Manchester Piccadilly - Cardiff Central service.
Rail Operations Groups 37884 'Cepheus' top & tailed with 37608 'Andromeda' pass Breaston with London Overgrounds 710 EMU No.710270 as 5Q26 10.50 Derby Litchurch lane - Worksop Up reception on 23rd February 2023.
ROG/Europhoenix 37884 "Cepheus" & 37800 "Cassiopeia" pause at the signal on the UML working 0W78 05.44 Leicester L.I.P. - Cardiff Brickyard Sidings to shunt Flex unit 769452 in top "n" tail mode over to Canton T.M.D. The Flex unit arrived at the Brickyard Sidings by road transport on Weds 10th June.
EuroPhoenix Class 37 Nos. 37884 'Cepheus' & 37901 'Mirrlees Pioneer' pass through Aston with two Eastern Rail Mk 2 vehicles in tow, forming 9Z99 0530 Sutton Coldfield - Chaddesfen Sidings on 17th March 2024. The train had spent the night at Sutton Coldfield taking part in a joint emergency services/Network Rail exercise simulating a tunnel incident involving evacuating passengers and dealing with injuries. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
This latest process of mine (part of a set of 2 images of SH2-171) from Grand Mesa Observatory was captured using the QHY367C for Color and for Narrowband I processed as Hubble Palette and I used the stars from the RGB image. Telescope used was the Takahashi FSQ 130 F5 APO Refractor “System 1” on Grand Mesa Observatory’s subscriptions.
Total Integration Time 14.8 hours
RGB Version www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/33568655118/in/photost...
You can also see this latest set of images in a new video on YouTube
Image capture details
By Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
QHY367C
Dates: over 4 nights Oct 10th, 16th, 19th, Nov 9th 2018
Color 280 min, 70 x 240 sec
H Alpha 330 min, 33 x 600 sec
OIII 160 min, 16 x 600 sec
SII 120 min, 12 x 600 sec
Camera: QHY367C
Offset 72, Gain 2850 Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Takahashi 130 FSQ APO Refractor
Mount: Paramount ME
Filters: Chroma Ha, OIII and SII 5nm
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Pre Processed using Pixinsight
Pro Processed using Photoshop CC
Encompassing the emission region designated Sharpless 171 is the star forming complex NGC7822 lying at a distance of roughly 3200 light years away in the constellation Cepheus is a spectacular example of a stellar nursery. The emission nebula shines as a result of the ionizing radiation from one of the hottest stars known; BD+66, which has a luminosity 100,000 times that of our sun. Curiously enough, BD+66 is also an eclipsing binary, which means that it is actually two stars in orbiting each other and are aligned in such a way that one star occasionally eclipses the other from our perspective, is a very young star forming region; no more than a few million years old. It will continue birthing new stars for several million more years until the radiation from the new stars blows away the last remnants of hydrogen gas, leaving behind a small cluster of young bright stars.
37884 ‘Cepheus’ + 321418 at Preston on 5Q08 12:19 Ilford E.M.U.D. - Kilmarnock (Barclay Sidings) on 16/11/18.
This wasn’t booked to stop at Preston but fortunately due to its and the TPE service’s late running it found itself in the middle of 4 northbound passenger trains so it did, enabling a far superior quality photo than if it had passed through non-stop.
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron Edge 8
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD 163C
Mounts
Vixen Great Polaris/DX
Accessories
Celestron Focus Motor for SCT · OnStep GoTo Controller · Celestron 0.7x Focal Reducer for EdgeHD 8
Software
PHD2 Guiding · Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM
Acquisition details
Dates:
April 19, 2022
Frames:
162x120" (5h 24')
Integration:
5h 24'
Avg. Moon age:
17.76 days
Avg. Moon phase:
90.16%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 5694584
RA center: 20h31m35s.3
DEC center: +60°38′56″
Pixel scale: 0.515 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 92.819 degrees
Field radius: 0.424 degrees
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Resolution: 4754x3530
Data source: Backyard
On the 30th September 2021 the first of the stored Class 365 Networker Express units left Crewe South Yard for scrapping. The first sets to leave were 365501 & 365511 which left behind ROG 57310 for Masborough Booths; then on 5th October, ROG 57312 made the journey down to Sims [Newport] with sets 365505 & 365537. Today, another pair of 365's headed for Sims in the shape of 365519 & 365527 this time behind 37884 "Cepheus". The train is seen seen here nearing the end of it's journey as it approaches the South Dock gates working 5Q76 08.41 Crewe South Yard - Newport Docks [Simsgroup].
The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023), a bright reflection nebula set amid clouds of dark yellow-brown dust in Cepheus. The bright red star at left is T Cephei. The smaller reflection nebula at far left is vdB 14. North is up in this framing.
This is a stack of 18 x 12-minute exposures with the SharpStar 94mm EDPH refractor at f/4.5 and with the Canon Ra at ISO 800, and through an Optolong L-Pro broadband filter. A generous application of luminosity mask curves in Photoshop generated with the Lumenzia panel brought out the faint dusty tendrils from the background sky. Autoguided with the MGEN3 with dithering; no LENR or dark frames employed. Taken from home Nov. 2/3, 2021.
37884 "Cepheus" stands on the UDL with Arlington Barrier Vehicles 68504 & 68501 in tow working 08.00 5N42 Leicester L.I.P. - Crewe Basford Hall S.S.M
This is only my 2nd object of the summer season due to the UK weather and probably a bit of apathy. I took this over 3 nights and is the longest integrated time I’ve spent on object totalling over 8h.
I’m slowly getting into using Siril software for more and more of the processing. I currently still use DSS for stacking but save the output to a 32bit fit for use in Siril. I use this to process the mono Oiii & Ha using GHS “General hyperbolic stretch transformation” then remove the stars and use Pixel Math to bring the Ha & Oiii together to create an RGB image. I still process the Ha luminance in Photoshop as this is where the detail comes from and feel I’ve got more control using selective “Noise Reduction” & “ Unsharp Mask” along with masking.
OBJECT DESCRIPTIONS:-
NGC 7822 is a young star forming area in the constellation of Cepheus and a rich Ha emission region including the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59. NGC 7822 has an apparent dimension of 100’ and is about 2900 ly from earth.
EQUIPMENT:-
Telescope: Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon
Focal Reducer: Explore Scientific 0.7
Mount: AZ-EQ6 GT
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos
Guide Camera: Orion Mini Auto Guide
Filter: Astronomik 6nm Ha
Filter: Astronomik 6nm Oiii
IMAGING DETAILS:-
NGC&822 & Berkeley 59 (Cepheus)
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
43Ha subs@360sec (4h 18min)
40 Oiii subs@360sec (4h)
Total imaging Time 8h 18min over 3 nights
Dithering
20 Darks
20 Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
APT "Astro Photograph Tools"
DSS
StarNet++
Siri
PS CS2
Nebulosa "Squalo" (LDN1235) e nebulosa "Vermone" (LDN1217) sono un vasto campo di nubi molecolari nella costellazione del Cefeo distanti da noi circa 1000 anni luce. Immagine ripresa con Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII e camera ccd Sbig STL11000 su montatura Losmandy G11. Autoguida Orion SSAG su Orion ST 80/400. Elaborazione LHRGB 900:420:180:180:180. Filtri: Astrodon Ha 6nm, Astronomik CLS CCD, Astronomik DeepSky RGB. Località di ripresa Casole d'Elsa, Radicondoli, Montieri
"Shark" Nebula (LDN1235) and "Big Worm" Nebula (LDN1217) are a vast field of molecular clouds in the constellation of Cefeo distant from us about 1000 light years. Image taken with Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII and Sbig STL11000 ccd camera on Losmandy G11 mount. Orion SSAG on Orion ST 80/400. LHRGB processing 900:420:180:180:180. Filters: Astrodon Ha 6nm, Astronomik CLS CCD, Astronomik DeepSky RGB. Locations Casole d'Elsa, Radicondoli, Montieri
ANDROMEDA GALAXY
As a follow up to last week’s picture of M33 the Triangulum Galaxy, here is Andromeda. In Greek Mythology, Andromeda was the beautiful daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia - these constellations are, appropriately, next to one another and just to Andromeda’s left in the sky. You all have seen Cassiopeia - the “W” now high in the evening northeastern sky (in the northern hemisphere).
But there is more. Cassiopeia proclaimed Andromeda was the most beautiful maiden in the land, offending Poseidon who promptly sent a sea monster to devastate Cepheus’ kingdom. Andromeda was chained to a rock, left to be devoured by the sea monster. But just in time Perseus flew in on the winged horse Pegasus and slew the monster, and rescued Andromeda. Perseus then asked Cepheus for her hand in marriage. They had six sons and a daughter. I’m not making this up.
And guess what - Perseus the constellation is just below Andromeda, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus in the sky - is there any better way than this to have your story immortalized?
Andromeda is indeed the fairest of them all in terms of galaxies. There are over 50 galaxies in the local group (a region 10 million light years in diameter centered on our Milky Way galaxy). Andromeda is the largest, the Milky Way is second, and M33 is third largest. Andromeda is the galaxy closest to Earth, 2.5 Million light years away. It contains an estimated one trillion stars and is at it’s outermost extreme, twice the diameter of the Milky Way. It takes 220,000 years, traveling at the speed of light, to go from one edge to the other. You can see the bright core of Andromeda with your naked eye, even in moderately light polluted skies. It appears as a fuzzy, nebulous patch. As I mentioned before, Andromeda (and M33) are moving toward us - at 100 km/sec - so in about 2.5 billion years there will be a collision.
Like our own Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda has satellite galaxies. The two brightest are M32 and M110, seen in this image, but there are many others, including at least 460 globular clusters. Edwin Hubble found the first Cepheid variable in Andromeda in 1925. This ended a long standing debate as to whether or not Andromeda was part of our galaxy or beyond (a whole other story).
I made this image in my backyard back in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA in September, 2018. It was constructed from 20 five minute exposures using the Takahashi Epsilon 180ED astrograph/telescope and Nikon D850 camera - no filters. Post processing was done in PixInsight.
Also known as Cadwell 4, it is a bright reflection nebula of magnitude 6.8 located in the constellation of Cepheus (the King), the dust in this region that creates the nebula is illuminated by a magnitude 7 star. It is 1,300 light years distance from Earth.
Image Profile:
Location: Lee, IL
Type: LRGB
Frames: LRGB 10x300; 10x300; 10x300; 10x300
Imaging time: 20140704
Hardware:
-Main scope: AT8RC
-Guiding Scope: Orion 80mm Short Tube
-CCD: QHY9M with filter wheel with LRGB Ha
-Orion Atlas Mount
Imaging Applications:
-Acquiring: Nebulosity Ver. 3.0.2
-Guiding: PHD Ver. 1.11.3
Processing Applications:
-CCD Stack
-Photoshop cs3
Comments: Not as good as yesterday with decreasing transparency and increasing haziness and scattered clouds. Temp 52 degrees F.
Rail Operations Group's 37884 'Cepheus' leads the 'Buxton Spa' railtour back through Peak Forest to Litchfield as 1Z86. A poorly 57312, along with 37608 'Andromeda', bring up the rear.
Also in shot from left to right are 66428 in the headshunt, 66433 shunting the recently arrived empty box wagons brought in by 60029 'Ben Nevis', as well as 66728 'Institution of Railway Operators', which waits time before heading off to Stourton. A pair of UID DB 66s are also in the Up Sidings.
Hi Folks,
During the past two years, the amount of imaging I was able to do was very limited by the big move and the construction of my Whispering Skies Observatory.
But now that my observatory is fully operational, I have been really cranking out the images, and I must admit that this has been great!
Today we have a new image - which hits a milestone of its own! This is the 150th project I have completed since I first started my Astrophotographic Journey!
This is SH2-155 - Better known as the Cave Nebula!
This is the result of 13.5 hours of narrowband integration and is rendered in the Hubble SHO color palette.
This mix of bright and dark nebulae is located 2,400 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus.
I first shot this target 5 years ago in RGB broadband, and now I have revisited it, bringing out the incredible detail that narrowband can show.
The full story of this project, and a detailed and annotated processing walkthrough, can be seen here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/sh2-155-cave-sho-2025
Thanks for looking!
Clear Skies,
Pat
37884 ‘Cepheus’ + 37800 at Preston on 0M67 08:25 Kilmarnock Bonnyton Depot - Derby R.T.C. on 10/01/23.
Widefield including LDN 1251, LDN 1235 (Dark Shark Nebula) and vdB 152/LDN1217 (Wolf's Cave) in the constellation Cepheus.
Canon EOS 6Da
Canon EF200mm f/2.8L II USM
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro | Lacerta M-GEN | Finderscope 9x50
26x 900sec | ISO400
To prevent star spikes the lens was stopped down with an adapter ring to f/4.0.
no filters used
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Prima foto elaborata con il nuovo monitor, speriamo vada bene. Oggetto ripreso purtroppo in serate con umidità superiore al 90%. Si tratta di Sh2-132, una nebulosa ad emissione situata nella costellazione del Cefeo, distante da noi circa 10000 anni luce. Immagine ripresa con Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII f/3,6 e camera ccd Sbig Stl11000 su montatura Losmandy G11. Autoguida Orion SSAG su Orion Short Tube. Elaborazione HRGB. Filtri Astrodon Ha 6nm e Astronomik DeepSky RGB. Software MaximDL, Pixinsight, PS. Località Casole d'Elsa - Siena - Italia
First photo processed with the new monitor, I hope it's OK. Unfortunately, this object was taken in evenings with humidity above 90%. This is Sh2-132, an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cefeo, far away from us about 10,000 light years. Image taken with Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII f/3.6 and Sbig Stl11000 ccd camera on Losmandy G11 mount. Orion SSAG on Orion Short Tube. HRGB processing.Filters Astrodon Ha 6nm and Astronomik DeepSky RGB. Software MaximDL, Pixinsight, PS. Location Casole d'Elsa - Siena - Italy
More class 315's for scrap, this time Europhoenix 37884 'Cepheus' tows TfL livery 315859 & Overground livery 315810 near Alderton on their final journey forming 5Q60 10.59 Ilford EMU Depot-Newport Docks on 15/10/20.
37884 'Cepheus' passes Acton Turville with a 5Q88 08.57 Gillingham EMU Depot-Newport Docks taking South Eastern 2-car class 466 'Networker' units 466015 + 466028 for scrapping on 11/09/25.
Widefield of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396/A). A region of stellar gas and dust in the constellation of Cepheus. The bright "star" at the center is really a triple star system known as HD 206267, which ionizes the surrounding gas, causing it to glow. The structure at the bottom, called the "Elephant's Trunk", is a region of dense gas and dust being compressed by strong ultraviolet rays, resulting in a region of star formation.
-Tamron 70-200 f2.8 G2 lens @ 200mm f/4
-ZWO ASI183MM pro camera
-iOptron GEM28 mount
-Guided with the ASI120MM mini
- 18 hrs total of narrowband data with the astronomik SHO filter set at Gain 111
120x30s Luminance filter (ASI183MC pro) for star colors
Processing was done in Siril and Affinity photo using the RC astro star removal and noise reduction plugins.
ROG/Europhoenix 37800 "Cassiopeia" & 37884 Cepheus" stand in platform 4 top "n" tailing Flex unit 769452 working 5Q78 12.19 Cardiff Brickyard Sidings - Canton T.M.D. via Central. The Flex unit arrived at the Brickyard Sidings on weds 10th June by road transport. This is the 5th Class 769 to arrive in Cardiff for use with Transport for Wales.
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the west of IC 1396A. The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant's Trunk nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.
37884 "Cepheus" drags freshly converted 769949 through Willington with the 5Q99 1124 Brush Loughborough - Burton Wetmore for onward use by GWR on 20th April 21
Ced 214 (also known as Sh2 -171 ) is a large emission nebula visible in the constellation of Cepheus .
It is an extensive nebula region linked to the stellar association Cepheus OB4 and illuminated by the stars of the open cluster Berkeley 59; vigorous star-formation processes are active inside it , generating low- mass stars .
The sky area in which this nebulous system is observed is located in the eastern part of the constellation of Cepheus, about 8 ° north of the bright star Caph , in a stretch of the Milky Way strongly obscured by interstellar dust and unlit nebulae; in its direction we observe HD 225216, an orange star of apparent magnitude5,68, which however is not linked to the nebula being in the foreground. Under a very dark sky and with the help of filters it is possible to see some vague details of the nebula, especially with large diameter instruments and using very low magnifications due to the large size of the object; in photography, on the contrary, the system becomes very evident.
Acquired on May 2020
H-alpha - 120 x 120 sec
OIII - 60 x 120 sec
SII - 55 x 120 sec
Total integration time: 7:50 hours
Imaging telescope, mount and camera:
TS Optics/GSO 6'' f4 Newtonian
Celestron CGEM-DX
ASI1600MM-Cool
Processed with: Pixinsight and Photoshop CC
Location:
Home Backyard, Geleen, Limburg, Netherlands (Bortle 6/7)
Europhoenix 37884 Cepheus leads Rail Operations Group 37800 Cassiopeia through Brundall with two barrier vehicles conveying a single ex-Great Western Mark 2 with 5G48 1237 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Yarmouth C.H.S. heading to the Eastern Rail Services depot just outside the Norfolk station. The pair of Type 3s later returned to Norwich with the barrier vehicles, unusually spending the night in Jubilee Carriage Sidings next to platform 6.
37884 "Cepheus", 465237 and 465235 pass Kensington Olympia with 5Q26 1059 Gillingham E.M.U.D. to Worksop Up Receptions. The 465's are to be stored at Worksop
Widefield Iris and Ghost Nebula in dusty Cepheus. A wide field image of the Iris Nebula (NGC7023) and the Ghost Nebula (SH2-136, VdB-141) in dusty Cepheus. The image is made up of data acquired with 6 scope/camera systems over 9 years... most recently 7.5hrs lum and 20 mins each RGB on my Esprit100/SX46, 3hrs each RGB GT71/ASI1600 in September2020 which together gave the wide field framework, 3hrs hrs of Ghost lum and 1hr each RGB taken in August 2019 on the TEC140 Atik460 and TEC140 Moravian8300 at Olly's @ollypenrice Les Granges observatory, 4hrs Lum and 3 hrs each RGB on the Iris taken in 2018 with my Esprit150/ASI1600 and 12 hrs lum on the Ghost taken by Olly in 2011 (scope/camera combo unknown).
Sh2-140 is a H II region in the constellation Cepheus.
The brigt spot in the left is the reflection nebula GN 22 12.3.
The remarkable edge (Bright-Rim) is caused by the radiation of the Bright Starsis in that area.
Spectacular dark nebula in Cepheus.
Image taken between 10-15 November, at the remote observatory at the E-Eye site in Spain.
The image is composed of 251*180 seconds, 12,5 hours of exposure time with a ZWO ASI-2600MC using a Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED Astrograph, riding on a Paramount ME II.
This is an extended cloud of gas and dust that is part of the low-mass star-forming region.
The two small galaxies are the spiral galaxy PGC 69472 (top - magnitude 15.5 and size: 2.1x1.6
arcmin) and the spiral galaxy PGC 166755 (bottom - magnitude 16 and size: 1.3x0.6 arcmin).
The bright yellow star in the center of the image is HR8625 (HD214710) (22h37m13.00s + 75 ° 22'18.0 ").
Cepheus is full of nebulae and interstellar gas that interact with the brightness of stars, its main figure is usually the Iris nebula NGC7023, but in the same field we can find many other less known and less bright forms of gas. That is why dark skies (bortle 2 or 3) are needed to get to the bottom of the sky.
The resolution is 1.77 "and I have the ccd at about 233º, so by carrying out simulations I could see how this object could be captured.
That said, I pass you the acquisition data:
Luminance: L astrodon GEN2 filter (600 "x sub): 12h BIN 1
Chrominance: RGB Astrodon GEN2 (300 "sub): 6h BIN 1
CCD: Atik 460exmono
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106ED
Frame: Paramount ME
Observatory: Àger (Catalonia, Spain)
Capture: The Sky X + SGP
Processed: Pixinsight 1.8 + Photoshop CC 2020
LDN 1251 is a molecular cloud in the constellation Cepheus, located about 1,000 light-years away.
The nebula is part of the Cepheus Flare region and is also referred to as the "Rotten Fish Nebula"
In some reddish areas of the nebula, active star formation is taking place.
Despite the dark nature of the nebula, several background galaxies are visible in its vicinity, including UGC 12160 and LEDA.
In the lower left, there is a red carbon star resembling a red giant.
35x180s red
43x180s green
33x180s blue
119x180s Luminanz
exposure time: 11,5 hour
Equipment:
Epsilon 130D dual rig
QHY268m + CFW3M
TS2600MP (Touptek IMX571) + ZWO EFW
Astronomik DeepSky RGB
Astronomik MaxFR
Pegasus NYX-101
June/July 2024
Location: french alp
Cave nebula, or sh2-155, is a diffuse nebula in the constellation Cepheus, within a larger nebula complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity. Sh2-155 is an ionized H II region with ongoing star formation activity, at an estimated distance of 2400 light-years from Earth.
Stunning emission nebula IC 1396 mixes glowing cosmic gas and dark dust clouds in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Energized by the bright central star seen here, this star forming region sprawls across hundreds of light-years, spanning over three degrees on the sky while nearly 3,000 light-years from planet Earth. Among the intriguing dark shapes within IC 1396, the winding Elephant's Trunk nebula lies just below center. 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. The gorgeous color view is a composition of image data from narrowband filters, mapping emission from the nebula's atomic oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur into blue, green, and red hues.
source: APOD NASA
Hubble Palette version (SHO): H-Alpha mapped to green, SII mapped to red and OIII mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters were used create the nebula color.
Stars have been added in true colors using R, G, B filters
RA: 21h 36m 24.6s
DEC: +57° 32’ 13.3"
Size: 113 x 55.9 arcmin
Orientation: Up is 183 degrees E of N
Location: Cepheus
Distance : 2,400 ly
Magnitude: 5,59
Acquisition 2021-07
Total acquisition time of 13.1 hours.
Technical Details
Data acquisition: Terry HANCOCK
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND
Location: The Grand Mesa Observatory, Whitewater, CO
L: 47 x 120s
R: 48 x 120s
G: 46 x 120s
B: 42 x 120s
Ha: 28 x 300s
OIII: 29 x 300s
SII: 27 x 300s
Optics: Takahashi FSQ130
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: QHY600M CMOS
Pre Processing: CCDstack, Pixinsight & Excalibrator
Post Processing: Photoshop CC