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IC 1396, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula, in the constellation Cepheus. Mu Cephei, the Garnet Star, is visible in the upper right.
37884 "Cepheus" seen making quite the exit at Derby working 0V67 from Derby RTC Serco - Honeybourne Sidings
Taken: 30th January 2025
VdB141 ist eine Molekülwolke im Sternbilds Cepheus.
distance ca. 250 - 550 Parsec.
Equipment:
TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton
1000mm f4
Moravian CCD G2-8300FW
Astrodon RGB
Losmandy G11/LFE Photo
Guding:
Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider
PHD2
6x600s RGB
15.10.2017
total exposure time: ca. 3 hour
Processing: PixInsight/Lightroom
Here is an interesting dark nebula in the shape of a shark's head. Also present are reflection nebulae vdB 150 (behind shark eye - top) & vdB 140 (below) - Lum 9 hours - Red + Blue 64 min. each - Green 56 min. with 8 min. exposures for all channels.
Scope Tak 106 FSQ ED + AP .67 Focal reducer. Camera STL 11000. on Tak EM11 mount. Date 10-11-12-18th. Sept. 2015
Apo-Len-Di observatories - Malta
Captured 31 Oct 2021, 20:00 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 7 skies, Canon 85mm lens at f/1.8, Celestron CG4 mount. Mallincam DS10C camera, RGB24, 8-bit, bin 1, exposure 15 sec, gain 20. Stack of 120 light frames, 12 dark frames, and 12 flat frames. Optolong LeNhance filter.
Clouds: clear
Seeing: good
Transparency: good
Moon phase: 24%
FOV: 11.5 x 8.5 degrees before cropping
Resolution: 20 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is North
Apparent magnitude (open cluster): +3.5
Size (open cluster): 12 arcmin
Appearance: Moderately bright circular star cluster within a circular red nebula, on a rich star field. The Elephant's Trunk feature is discernable but not well defined in the central nebula. The FOV includes The Garnet Star at 12 o'clock, Flying Bat Nebula (Sh2-129) at 2 o'clock, and a portion of the Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) at 9 o'clock.
Notes: This image shows a limitation of using small aperture (47mm) optic for wide field astrophotography -- suboptimum image scale, i.e. resolution (20 arcsec/pixel) is an order of magnitude lower than conditions would enable (atmospheric seeing ~ 2 arcsec). This provided a coarse view of the target. On the other hand: the setup was light and compact, the imaging time of 30 minutes was relatively brief, FOV was pleasingly wide, fast f-ratio captured rich starfield, and low cost optic was mated to dedicated astro-camera. Frames were stacked in DSS, and post-processing in PS was more careful than usual. Consider reducing aperture by one f-stop to improve "roundness" of stars.
From Wikipedia: The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star HD 206267 (at center of nebula).
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.
Portion of the IC1396 nebular complex in Cepheus, which includes the Elephant's Trunk and other dark nebulae.
It's a rapid processing to look for the correct way to blend the H-alpha channel into the RGB and it’s a crop of a wider area.
Unfortunately, due to a problem in the powerstation (a bad contact in the bridge which puts the batteries in parallel) I can’t acquire flats of RGB subs and H-alpha ones have not been calibrated at all, as it was intended to be only a processing test.
The number of acquired subs was also limited by a problem with the declination axis that did not allow me to start the capture before the 1:00am, making me lose almost 3 hours of signal (sooner or later I’ll get the Mach1 GTO mount!).
Telescope: FSQ-106EDX3
Camera: QSI 683 wsg8
Filters: Astrodon E-Series RGB and H-alpha 5nm 31mm
Guiding: SX Lodestar
Mount: SW AZ-EQ6-GT
A close-up view of the Number '1' nose end of class 37 diesel locomotive 37 884 'Cepheus' coupled to withdrawn class 456 EMUs 456 024, 456 009 and 456 014 at Clapham Junction with the late winter sunshine highlighting the front end details on these iconic former BR locomotives built between 1960 and 1965 to good effect. The class 37s are the last of the breed of former British Rail diesel locomotives with the pronounced 'nose' ends with this distinctive style of front end design also being applicable to the members of the BR class 40, class 44, class 45, class 46 and class 55 Deltic locomotives. The odd locomotives out were the class 55s as the class 37, 40, 44, 45 and 46 had three windows on their front ends compared to the class 55 Deltics with only two windows.
Cepheus and Herschel's Garnet Star
Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini Samyang 135mm f2.0 @f2.8 Canon 6DAW ISO1600 85x60s dark flats
medium seeing SQM 18.91
Celestron C8 telescope, Canon EOS 40D
Total of over 14 hours exposure: combination of 8 x 10 and 1 x 20-minute exposures at ISO 1000, and 55 x 10 & 10 x 20-minute exposures at ISO 1600, all f6.3, taken using manual off-axis guiding over 25 nights from 2008 to 2011.
Edited Spitzer Space Telescope PR image of the Cepheus C and Cepheus B region and associated nebula. Color/processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23126
Original caption: This image was compiled using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) during Spitzer's "cold" mission, before the spacecraft's liquid helium coolant ran out in 2009. The colors correspond with IRAC wavelengths of 3.6 microns (blue), 4.5 microns (cyan) and 8 microns (green), and 24 microns (red) from the MIPS instrument.
The green-and-orange delta filling most of this image is a nebula, or a cloud of gas and dust. This region formed from a much larger cloud of gas and dust that has been carved away by radiation from stars.
The bright region at the tip of the nebula is dust that has been heated by the stars' radiation, which creates the surrounding red glow. The white color is the combination of four colors (blue, green, orange and red), each representing a different wavelength of infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes.
The massive stars illuminating this region belong to a star cluster that extends above the white spot.
On the left side of this image, a dark filament runs horizontally through the green cloud. A smattering of baby stars (the red and yellow dots) appear inside it. Known as Cepheus C, the area is a particularly dense concentration of gas and dust where infant stars form. This region is called Cepheus C because it lies in the constellation Cepheus, which can be found near the constellation Cassiopeia. Cepheus-C is about 6 light-years long, and lies about 40 light-years from the bright spot at the tip of the nebula.
The small, red hourglass shape just below Cepheus C is V374 Ceph. Astronomers studying this massive star have speculated that it might be surrounded by a nearly edge-on disk of dark, dusty material. The dark cones extending to the right and left of the star are a shadow of that disk.
The smaller nebula on the right side of the image includes a blue star crowned by a small, red arc of light. This "runaway star" is plowing through the gas and dust at a rapid clip, creating a shock wave or "bow shock" in front of itself.
Some features identified in the annotated image are more visible in the IRAC data alone, found here.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena. Space operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at IPAC at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
For more information on Spitzer, visit:
www.nasa.gov/spitzer and www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image Addition Date:
2019-05-30
NYK Line vehicle carrier
Built: 2006
Flag: Panama
Width: 32 m
Length: 199 m
Gross tonnage: 62571
IMO: 9308883
MMSI: 372056000
Photo takent from Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, 1 April 2013
Wasn't able to catch any of the meteors, but still enjoyed these shots. See The 2006 Perseids at my blog for more info.
37884 'Cepheus' drags 321403 working 5Q08 Illford EMU to Kilmarnock seen passing Lichfield Trent Valley
The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus located at a distance of about 2,400 light-years away.
H-Alpha taken in September 2017 from Campbell, CA, USA and RGB taken in August-September 2019 Sky: 18.80 mag/arcsec^2
Total integration: 88.5 hours (5310 mins)
Details, Equipment, & Software:
Telescope: Astro-Tech AT10RCT (FL2000mm f/8)
Camera: SBIG STF-8300m (-10°C)
Filter: Astrodon 36mm RGB & Hα (5nm)
Guide: OAG-8300 with QHY5III174
Focuser: Moonlite CSL w/ high res stepper motor
Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100GTO
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Frame 1:
Astrodon Hα: 60x900s
Astrodon R: 120x300s
Astrodon G: 120x300s
Astrodon B: 120x300s
Frame 2:
Astrodon Hα 54x900s
Astrodon R: 120x300s
Astrodon G: 120x300s
Astrodon B: 120x300s
Stacking/Final Processing: Pixinsight
Compare & contrast. Europhoenix/ROG 37884 "Cepheus" with 321438 (I think).
A pair of Class 321 EMUs en route from Clacton to Newport docks for scrap. 321438 (I think) behind loco, 321356 at rear, 19/2/21.
NYK Line vehicle carrier
Built: 2006
Flag: Panama
Width: 32 m
Length: 199 m
Gross tonnage: 62571
IMO: 9308883
MMSI: 372056000
Photo takent from Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, 1 April 2013
I recently changed cameras on my Rokinon 135mm f/2 setup. I replaced the ASI1600MM Pro with the newer ASI533MM Pro. This sacrifices some resolution and field of view (going from 16 megapixels down to 9), but overall the quality of the camera is much higher, with a higher bit depth and much lower noise.
This image is First Light with that camera, and it's an image of two dark nebulae, the Dark Shark Nebula (LDN 1235, top, looks like a shark swimming right to left) and Pillar of Cepheus (vdB 152, lower left near the red streak), aptly named as this is in the constellation of Cepheus. This is a true color image taken through normal RGB filters, with some extra boosting of the red channel with images taken through a hydrogen emission-line filter, and represents a total of 40 hours of exposures across 11 nights in June and July 2022.
I did see an Iridium satellite again, but I was too anxious and missed the exposure. This was taken about 10 minutes before the satellite appeared.
A reflection nebula in Cepheus. Since we are still clouded-out, this is again a reprocessed version of older data. Taken in 2011 with a Hyperstar 3 on a C11, 45 minutes each Sloan g-r-i photometric filters. The Sloan filters have sharp cut-offs between filters and so tend to make the colours pop more than RGB filters. The 4K desktop-background version ;-)
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A (north in my image). The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant's Trunk nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.
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This image is shot from my light polluted backyard using a William Optics Star 71 telescope on an NEQ6 Pro mount. Camera used is an Atik 383L+ mono with Astrodon LRGB filters. The image is composed of 1Hr RGB (bin2) data for color and 11,5Hr of Luminance for detail.
The large nebula IC1396 in Cepheus, with the winding Elephant's Trunk just visible at it's lower right corner. The bright star in the centre of the frame is Hershel's Garnet Star, one of the largest in the galaxy. The outline of the Flying Bat nebula (Sh2-129) dimly visible at the lower right.
Taken with a 135mm Super-Takumar lens at f4.5 on a modded Canon 1100D camera. 30x135 second subs, ~67 minutes total exposure.
From APOD:
Like delicate cosmic petals, these clouds of interstellar dust and gas have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile star fields of the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes called the Iris Nebula and dutifully cataloged as NGC 7023, this is not the only nebula in the sky to evoke the imagery of flowers. Still, the beautiful digital image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries in impressive detail. Within the Iris, dusty nebular material surrounds a massive, hot, young star in its formative years. Central filaments of cosmic dust glow with a reddish photoluminesence as some dust grains effectively convert the star's invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Yet the dominant color of the nebula is blue, characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight. Dark, obscuring clouds of dust and cold molecular gas are also present and can lead the eye to see other convoluted and fantastic shapes. Infrared observations indicate that this nebula may contain complex carbon molecules known as PAHs. As shown here, the Iris Nebula is about 6 light-years across.
This was a test for my new imaging setup. I used Sequence Generator Pro with Robofocus for the first time.
I had all kinds of issues through the night. As a result I have only 85 mins of data in Luminance only.
Even so, the image is more detailed with greater resolution than the Iris I shot last year with the Astrotech RC.
I will get color data sometime during the following months.
The famous Elephant Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) in the constellation Cepheus. This was captured in my backyard in Philadelphia using a 5nm Astrodon Hydrogen Alpha narrowband filter.
Night photo on metallic paper with hand-sewn beads and Cannis Major constellation sewn in gold thread.
Every 3 stitches, I tie a knot to keep the tension of the sewing taught and the silver beads secure.
The thread I use is strong beading floss. The beads are Japanese delicas - a high quality type of glass bead where each one is precision laser cut to be exactly the same size and shape. The gold thread is high-quality Japanese embroidery thread normally used in goldwork embroidery. I don't use real gold thread because it's too thick to be sewn through a support (it's more like wire) and would tarnish over time.
I am an interdisciplinary artist producing sculpture/installation, video, and photo-based projects. The unifying thread in all my work is the interaction between concept/subject and material properties.
My studio practice involves a lot of tests in various materials and watching as the inherent possibilities for meaning evolve. I also read a lot and maintain an archive in which I file away ideas for later consideration. When I’ve found a good point of connection between what the work is and what the work says, my material explorations link up with the research-based part of my practice in a way that feels very natural.
My current body of work came together with an invitation to participate in an exhibition called ‘Nocturne’ at Cube Gallery in Ottawa. I had tested sewing beads on photographs – in grids and patterns – for quite some time. This exhibition led me to sewing beads onto nighttime photos, using the star charts as a pattern.
I feel the act of sewing my photos reinforces their object-ness. Photographs are so much a part of our lives that we take them (and the surface-based knowledge they bring us) for granted. In 1933, Pierre Villey wrote about the sense of sight as being a form of “long distance touch.” Photographs serve to extend that distance, enabling us to feel we have touched places we have never been. By interrupting the surface of a photo, I set up tension between two realities: that of the place, represented by the photographic landscape, and the tactile reality of the beads - tiny, non-photographic, objects in the picture plane with their trace of sewn activity, representing the stars.
Astro-Tech AT130EDT triplet refractor
Astro-Tech 0.8x flattener/reducer
Nikon D5300 (unmodified)
24x300s subs at ISO 200
Rail Operations Group class 37 diesel loco 37884 passing through Harrow and Wealdstone on 9 May 2018. It was returning to Leicester from Eastleigh after undergoing collision damage repairs. While at Eastleigh the loco was named "Cepheus".
On Friday March 7th 2025, recently renumbered and repainted GROG Pool 37 501, 'Teesside Steelmaster', along with 37 884 'Cepheus' worked a pair of former First Great Western HST Power Cars (Nos. 43 020 and 43 017) north through Peterborough. They'd been stored at Ely for a few years, and were being moved to Burton on Trent.
TOPS info:-
37501 GROG LR G M 0 AA
43020 SCEL HQ G H T AP
43017 SCEL HQ G H T AP
37884 GROG LR G M 0 AA.
37 501 was built by English Electric as D6705, entering service in January 1961.
D6705
March 12/01/1961
Stratford 06/1961
Wath 11/1967
Tinsley 05/1968
Thornaby 05/1970
Allocation recoded 51L to TE 05/1973
Renumbered 37005 02/1974
Gateshead 09/1979
Thornaby 01/1982
Gateshead 01/1983
Renumbered 37501 25/04/1986
Thornaby 01/1987
Named Teesside Steelmaster at TE TMD about 4/3/87. Plates removed on transfer to ML in 1991.
Motherwell 01/1991
Thornaby 05/1992
Immingham 08/1992
Store 20/04/1994
Immingham 21/07/1994
Returned to Service 21/07/1994
Renumbered 37601 31/01/1995
Stewarts Lane 03/1995
St. Philips Marsh 06/1995
Old Oak Common 10/1996
North Pole 13/11/2006
Headquarters Pool 14/11/2007
Kingmoor Diesel 19/02/2008
Returned to Service 19/02/2008
It was named Clase 37-'Fifty' at Dereham station, Mid Norfolk Railway on 25/9/10.
Returned to DRS about 10/10
Offered for sale by DRS 23/11/16, sold to Europhoenix 2/17.
Store 14/02/2017
Stored at Carlisle Kingmoor 14/2/17, moved to Motherwell depot 17/2/17, then to MoD Longtown 15/3/17, returned to Carlisle Kingmoor 2/4/17, then to Carlisle Wapping
Sidings 6/5/17 and on to Leicester depot 11/4/17.
Ran light to Eastleigh Works 15/6/17 for repainting, returned to Leicester 19/7/17.
Name removed 17/2/17
DRS branding removed 3/17
Leicester (Midland) 06/04/2017
Repainted in Europhoenix livery with Rail Operations Group branding, named Perseus with the Image of that star constellation at the left-hand side of the nameplate 19/7/17
Returned to Service 10/08/2017.
Repainted into British Steel livery, renamed "Teesside Steelmaster", and renumbered back to 37 501 in March 2025.
43020 was built at Crewe, entering service as part of 253010 in 1976.
St. Philips Marsh 09/1976
Old Oak Common HST Depot 10/1976
Laira 05/1986
Named John Grooms, with a circular arrow logo on a plaque above the nameplate, at Paddington Station on 25/8/93. Removed in 8/07.
Moved from Landore to Gloucester on 17/8/07, then to Brush, Loughborough on 20/8/07 for refurbishing including replacing Paxman Valenta engine with MTU engine.
Released back to First Great Western on 16/10/07.
Released back to First Great Western on 16/10/07, and re-entered traffic on 1/11/07.
Named mtu Power. Passion. Partnership., with mtu on a slanting blue rectangle and a slanting red rectangle to the right of that one, at Paddington Station, London in 6/11.
Moved to Ely for store 7/1/20
Nameplates removed after having been moved to Ely, probably in 1/20
On a list issued by Angel Trains of rolling stock available for release or disposal 11/21
Headquarters Pool 07/01/2022
Store 07/01/2022.
43017 was built at Crewe, entering service as part of 253008 in 1976.
Old Oak Common HST Depot 09/1976
Laira 05/1984
St. Philips Marsh 03/1985
Named HTV West at Bristol Temple Meads Station on 6/5/87
Laira 05/1988
Nameplates removed 5/89. Stainless steel nameplates were made but never carried; at least one has been sold at auction
St. Philips Marsh 10/1989
Laira 04/1990
St. Philips Marsh 05/1991
Landore 11/06/2006
St. Philips Marsh 12/02/2007
Laira 09/12/2007
Name removed 3/19
Moved into Brush, Loughborough on 12/1/07 for refurbishing including replacing Paxman Valenta engine with MTU engine. Released back to First Great Western on 16/3/07,
but en route back to Landore, it only made it as far as Hatherly, near Cheltenham due to the drawbar snapping, and did not arrive back at Landore until 19/3/07. Returned to
service 27/3/07.
Named Hannahs discovererhannahs.org at Exeter St. Davids Station on 4/6/14.
Stored at St. Philip's Marsh, then ran to Ely 5/3/19
Headquarters Pool 13/03/2019
Store 13/03/2019.
37 884 was built by RSH as D6883, entering service in 1963.
Landore 07/11/1963
Allocation recoded 87E to 87A 11/69
Allocation recoded 87A to LE 5/73
Renumbered 37183 03/1974
Eastfield 04/1982
Inverness 04/1982
Eastfield 01/1986
Motherwell 05/1987
Cardiff (Canton) 06/1988
Renumbered 37884 01/11/1988
Thornaby 05/1992
Received nameplates Gartcosh at Thornaby TMD in 8/92 without ceremony.
Immingham 03/1993
Toton 11/1998
Crewe Diesel 11/2000
EWS Headquarters Pool 13/01/2001
Store 13/01/2001
EWS Headquarters Pool 16/06/2001
To WQ 16/6/01 as allocated to Special Projects. Left UK for Spain on 21/8/01 via the Channel Tunnel, and also numbered L34 and to store in Spain 2/11/08.
Moved from Spain to Perpignan, France in 1/12, and offered for sale in 2/12. Arrived at Dollands Moor from France via the tunnel on 13/8/12, then to Wembley on 25/10/12.
Moved to Bescot on 14/12/12 and arrived at European Metal Recycling, Kingsbury on 17/12/12
Headquarters Pool 07/08/2013
Sold to Europhoenix and reregistered 7/8/13. Hauled from European Metal Recycling, Kingsbury to Boden Rail, Washwood Heath 14/8/13 for overhaul. Moved to Barrow Hill on
30/6/14.
Repainted in Europhoenix livery 6/5/14.
It was out on test 12/11/15, then moved to Leicester on 15/11/15 and returned to service on hire to the Rail Operations Group 16/11/15.
37884's overhaul included removing ballast weight to improve route availability. Dellner couplers were fitted in the second half of November 2015
Small Rail Operations Group branding applied on upper bodyside 22/11/15
Leicester (Midland) 06/01/2016.
Large Rail Operations Group branding applied by the side of the Europhoenix logo on the bodyside 13/4/16.
Named Cepheus with the image of that star constellation on the left-hand side of the nameplate, with Rail Operations Group branding repositioned 8/5/18.
37884 carried EIIR vinyls on the cab fronts on 19th September 2022, the day of HM the Queen’s funeral.
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