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Old 30-09-2014, 09:54 AM
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The Cave Nebula (SH2-155)

Perhaps my last northern object for a little while. I have a backlog of local data to process!

This is the Cave Nebula in Cepheus, an interaction between the Cepheus B molecular cloud and a group of large, hot stars. It's a great mix of emission, dark and reflection nebulae. There is also a group of Herbig-Haro objects (168, 169, 174) towards the bottom of the image at about 7 o'clock.

The gear used was a Tak FSQ-106ED on a Paramount ME with a QSI683 camera. This was a total of about 18 hours of 900s LRGB subs.

Processed in PixInsight and drizzle upsampled from a native resolution of just over 2 arcsec/pixel to around 1 arcsec/pixel.

High res here: http://www.astrobin.com/123869/

Constructive criticism welcome. Some might find the colours a bit much?

Cheers,
Rick.
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