Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  LBN 487  ·  LDN 1174  ·  NGC 7023  ·  VdB139
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NGC7023 - The Iris Nebula, wadeh237
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NGC7023 - The Iris Nebula

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NGC7023 - The Iris Nebula

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NGC7023 - The Iris Nebula

This is the Iris Nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. It was taken between July 11 and July 14 at the 2018 Golden State Star Party.

The equipment used was a Celestron EdgeHD 8 with F/7 focal reducer on an Astro-Physics AP1600AE mount. The camera was a ZWO ASI1600MM-cool with Astrodon filters. Exposures were 62x180 red, 61x180 green and 57x180 blue at gain 76 and offset 40.

Image capture software was Sequence Generator Pro with PHD2 guiding.

Calibration, registration, statistical noise rejection and combination were done in CCDStack. The remainder of processing was done in PixInsight.

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NGC7023 - The Iris Nebula, wadeh237