Five Sharpless objects in Cepheus

Posted by dcrowson
on Monday, December 28, 2015

Sharpless 147
Sharpless 148
Sharpless 149 (LBN 516)
Sharpless 152 (LBN 519)
Sharpless 153 (LBN 518)

All are part of the same molecular cloud located approximately 15,000 light-years away in Cepheus.

Ha – 12x1800s – 360 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

480 minutes total exposure – 8 hours

Imaged from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri on September 25th and October 2nd, 2015 with a SBIG ST-

8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

HaRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/23408226423/sizes/l

HaRGB Annotated - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/23952449191/sizes/l

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