Another northern object captured at SRO in California. NGC7129 is a bubble-shaped reflection nebula illuminated by a cluster of young stars. Not quite up to the standard of the recent APOD using Subaru data but we have a much bigger FOV
Captured at SRO, Jun - Aug, 2016
Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (Drizzled to double res)
Exposures: 53x600s L, 25x1200s R, 26x1200s G, 27x1200s B, 32x1800s Ha (50.8 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8
Acquisition credit: Bret Charles, Scott Johnson, John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Jose Mtanous and Rick Stevenson
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson
High res version of the full field here:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/262135/D/
Constructive criticism is welcomed
Cheers,
Rick.