LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula, VdB 149 & 150 (Lorenzo Palloni)

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

LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula, VdB 149 & 150

I've been in vacations for 3 weeks, and this is the last picture that I took a couple of days ago (I will work the previous images in the next weeks).
To shot this image, I've been under a Bortle 4, 21 sqm, at 1.000 meters of altitude on a mountain, in the day without Moon at all, in a wood.
The sunset was great, the air fresh, and while I was enjoying the evening I started to take flat frames but I had a little problem with the camera (some frost: essicant tablets to be changed), so I couldn't use the set. So I worked this image without flat frames at all, the great Sky made them not essential and luckly after a while the frost went away so the light frames are ok.
This is my second attempt to shoot the Dark Shark (my previous was with camera lens 70-200 and dslr, not a great result), and I think that it was this subject that 2 years ago started everything about my trips: I progressively decreased to shoot the photos from my city (Bortle 8), and bought the setup to take itinerant photos, that made me also love the contact with the Nature.
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