Berkeley 97 & LDN 1196

[deeplook (Markus)]

Hello altogether!

Berkeley 97 is a small open star cluster in constellation Cepheus. It forms a nice pair with the dark nebula LDN 1196. Several scientists wrote about Berkeley 97 and so its distance was measured quite accurate - about 7860 light years.

Picture was taken at my observatory at the Gahberg, Upper Austria, back in summer 2015, when the nights were warm and clear... ;-)

Image data and 100% resolution:
http://www.deeplook.astronomie.at/berkeley%2097.htm

Best regards, Markus

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Markus.

Nice colours and well composed.

I love dark objects.

Ross.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Good one Markus.Those dark nebs always look good--I guess they are always a bit unexpected.
Geoff

[Atmos (Colin)]

Quite nice Markus

Your setup is quite interesting too! 10" for lum and 5" for RGB, nice

[RickS (Rick)]

I like the dark ones too. Nicely done, Markus.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Simple but beautiful shot Markus, nicely composed and beautifully processed, great work

Mike

[deeplook (Markus)]

Hello Ross, Geoff, Colin, Rick and Michael,

thank you very much!

Your setup is quite interesting too! 10" for lum and 5" for RGB, nice

I would not recommend that - a "fast" 8" (f/3) for RGB should work better. In my case, RGB signal is qiute low compared to L, so it needs a bit more of processing.

Markus

[Atmos (Colin)]

A very fast 8" F/3 would be awesome no matter what you had it doing

[Paul Haese]

A pleasing looking image Markus. Nice colour and an interesting looking target.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

really nice image Markus - star colours and field look beautiful.

russ

[deeplook (Markus)]

Thank you very much Russel and Paul!

Markus