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      vdB 152
       Dark and Reflection Nebula in Cepheus
           RA:22h 12m 49s  Dec: +70 29' 43" Distance - ~1300 ly

Location & Date
Backyard, Abbott Observatory- Long Island, NY,  November 2022
Telescope
TMB130SS  910mm F/7 APO, Moonlite focuser, Losmandy G11 Gemini
Image scale 1.54 arcsec/pixel
Camera
SBIG ST-10XME
Baader Ha RGB  filters
CCD temp -10°C
Exposures
Ha-12x10m  Red-12x5m  Green-12x5m  Blue-12x5m Bin 1x1 for each panel
Planning & Acquisition
Sequence Generator Pro Mosaic Tool

Processing
CCDStack -  Calibration, Debloom
Astro Pixel Processor - Ha RGB frame processing and mosaic panel assembly
Adobe PS -  Ha + RGB color processing
RC-Astro StarXTerminator & NoiseXTerminator

This is a 2 panel mosaic

vdB 152 is comprised of two objects. One is Barnard 175, a dense pillar of cosmic dust known as a dark nebula. To the right of the dark nebula is blue reflection nebula Cederblad 201. Inside this reflection nebula is a blue-white main sequence star, BD + 69 1231. The star is magnitude 9.29 and its radiation gives the surrounding gases a bluish color. Also seen in the background are faint traces of hydrogen filaments from SNR 110.3+11.3 supernova remnant.
Together, they are known as Van den Bergh 152 and is located in the constellation Cepheus



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