Sh2-129/ OU4, The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula (SparkyHT)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: 5 Cep) · The star Alderamin (α Cep

Sh2-129/ OU4, The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula, SparkyHT

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Sh2-129/ OU4, The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula

This is it, the culmination of the entire summer's worth of imaging. My region did not get out from under the winter/spring permacloud until late May, then came thick wildfire smoke, which pretty much stuck around in varying thickness for the entire summer. Many of the nights that I imaged these objects were cut short by clouds, fog, or smoke, and MANY subs were tossed. What you see in the final image is the best I could get over 20 nights, and out of the those, perhaps only 3 of them were not spoiled by the environment or the moon. I knew this object pair was going to be tough, I just didn't realize HOW tough! If I'm one thing, it's that I am stubborn as a bull, so I stuck to my decision and just kept collecting photons for what felt like an eternity. I've never processed such a massive data set before, fortunately I recently built a PC that chugged through all the data in big gulps. I am pleasantly surprised how well all the data stacked up, especially on OU4. The effort was totally worth the work and the wait!

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