A Shark in Cepheus (Jon Talbot)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: The star 16Cep

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A Shark in Cepheus

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Image of the day 12/17/2021

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A Shark in Cepheus

Link: https://www.starscapeimaging.com/LDN1235/LDN1235.html

The Shark nebula is a faint cloud of interstellar gas and dust in the constellation Cepheus. It has this nickname since it looks like a shark in wide field images. The above image spans about two thirds of its actual length of about 15 light years. Within this dust cloud are several other objects. The darker dusty area to the top left is LDN 1235, the densest part of this dust cloud. The bright blue reflection nebula on the top of the image is VdB 150 and the bottom blue reflection nebula is VdB 149. Both this beautiful reflection nebula shine with the color of very hot B8IV stars within these parts of the nebula. This dusty cloud is approximately 650 light years distant. A small galaxy, PGC 67671, is in the upper right edge of the image. PGC 67671 is much farther distant at close to 58 million light years.

The image was taken under very dark Bortle 1 skies at the 2021 Okie Tex Star Party in Kenton, Oklahoma in Oct 2021. The image was acquired using Voyager automation software and processed with PixInsight along with a few tweaks using Photoshop. The image scale is 1.28 arcsec/pixel.

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