LBN628, a hurtling beast in Cepheus (Robin Livermore)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD17243 · HD22701 · HD26367 · LBN 628 · LBN 631 · LBN 632 · LDN 1320 · NGC 1544

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I had a run of clear nights in January, and while I was largely focused on targets around Orion and Perseus, I also needed some targets late in the night when my sight lines here make the milky way too low for imaging.

This is an area of Cepheus near to Polaris. I guess this is mostly galactic cirrus aka IFN, but there are some quite thick patches more like molecular clouds. There's a sense here of some sort of beast hurtling out of the clouds to the right. The beast's head is LBN628 I believe.

My subs suffered from quite a lot of passing faint cloud and mist, and this led to quite a problematic set of gradients. A very careful DBE session did quite a good job, but there were still some issues with dark red and green areas due to my fairly intense stretch. So I also had to reduce colour saturation a bit, which gives the end result a slightly monochrome feel, albeit with some colour in the stars and perhaps still a hint of the gradient problems.

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RA (center)	03h56m14s.63
RA (top/left)	04h42m30s.78
RA (top/right)	06h02m37s.61
RA (bottom/right)	01h56m13s.31
RA (bottom/left)	03h03m53s.58

Dec (center)	+86°33′53″.3
Dec (top/left)	+84°49′26″.3
Dec (top/right)	+87°47′23″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+87°55′25″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+84°52′49″.6

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