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Reflection Nebulae in Vulpecula, Robin Livermore
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Reflection Nebulae in Vulpecula

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Reflection Nebulae in Vulpecula

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This image was framed around the reflection nebula van den Bergh 126 in Vulpecula. This is the lower of the two blue reflection nebulae, and  above it is DG155 also categorised as LBN133.  I believe vdB 126 is also categorised as LBN134 and Cederblad 167, although Sky Safari actually shows these as a third nebula in between the other two, but I think that must be incorrect?

Some nice dark nebulae snake around too, and to the left there as another small reflection nebula which is uncategorised as far as I can tell. In the lower part of the image, there appears to be a glow around the red star HD183681. I get plenty of issues with artifacts around stars with the RASA, and assumed there was something going on like that with this star, but looking at the subs, there is definitely a bit of extra glow that is not a normal sort of RASA star artifact. Obviously reflection nebulae are usually blueish, so not sure what's going on there.

The  image was shot in June at 52N, so no astronomical darkness here, but I still get an SQM measure around Bortle 4/5, so this worked reasonably well.

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Reflection Nebulae in Vulpecula, Robin Livermore