Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)
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Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings), Scott Denning
Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings)
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Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings)

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Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings), Scott Denning
Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings)
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Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings)

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A very dusty field in Cepheus! 

Borg 125 SD (f4, 288 mm)
ASI 094C gain 100 cooled to -10 C
iOptron CEM 40EC guided with ASI 290 and tiny guide scope
8 hours of 1-minute subs
Bortle 2 mountain meadow
10,500 feet elevation in the Medicine Bow Mountains, southern Wyoming
Captured in NINA on Windows
Processed in PixInsight on a Mac
Separated stars & dust using StarXTerminator
Deconvolved then very aggressively stretched the dust with GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch and then Exponential Transformation
Light application of NoiseXTerminator
Lightly stretched the stars & then screened them back in with PixelMath

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Cepheus Dust (LDN 1228 & surroundings), Scott Denning