NGC 7129 The Small Cluster Nebula (Kevin Morefield)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: NGC 7129 · NGC 7133 · NGC 7142 · VdB146

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NGC 7129 The Small Cluster Nebula

Another dark nebula housing a cluster of young stars burning bright and blue. A lot like the Iris Nebula, which I'm working on concurrently, but with more blue reflection than most LDNs.

I haven't run across this much on Astrobin. Not sure why as the surrounding dark nebulousity is lovely and the nearby star cluster adds something too.

I was away at the Oregon Star Party for three nights with no internet whatsoever. That meant I had to set the remote rig on "Loop" with CCDAutopilot - something I never do. Luckily, it worked. The only issue was that the command to raise the CCD temprature during the day did not trigger. So the camera stayed on at 100% for days.

Searching for more info on this after I completed it, I found an APOD of this a year or two ago. That showed an SNR in Ha too. So I guess I'll start the Ha capture tonight...

EDIT: After a full night of 30 minute Ha subs not a trace of the SNR was seen. I went back to the APOD and saw that this data came from the Subaru telescope. OK, moving on now...

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	2843635
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RA (center)	21h43m18s.471
RA (top/left)	21h46m35s.426
RA (top/right)	21h45m24s.252
RA (bottom/right)	21h39m56s.259
RA (bottom/left)	21h41m16s.498

Dec (center)	+66°04′30″.18
Dec (top/left)	+65°45′14″.79
Dec (top/right)	+66°29′19″.14
Dec (bottom/right)	+66°23′30″.56
Dec (bottom/left)	+65°39′37″.60

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