Dark flames in Cepheus' Dusty Corner (Torben van Hees)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: LBN 468 · LDN 1147 · LDN 1148 · LDN 1152 · LDN 1155 · LDN 1157 · LDN 1158

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Dark flames in Cepheus' Dusty Corner

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Dark flames in Cepheus' Dusty Corner

Link: http://astro.van-hees.name

I found these dark clouds while scanning through Cepheus in DSS imagery and found them nice looking. So I decided to give it a go as my first dark nebula. I really like this image. There are some halos around the brighter stars, probably from high clouds. I could reduce them by culling more images, but I rather like the dreamy look they lend to this image. I really like all the details in the fainter dust clouds to the left of the center.

Surprisingly, post processing went rather smoothly. I only did some noise reduction and stretching before LRGB combination and some curves at the end. <- This was the description on my initial processing. The original has little resemblance to the result I got when I applied what I learned in the two years since.

By the way, the dust clouds are LDN 1147, LDN 1148, LDN 1152, LDN 1155, LDN 1157 and LDN 1158

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RA (center)	20h38m55s.81
RA (top/left)	20h29m29s.58
RA (top/right)	20h35m36s.51
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m54s.79
RA (bottom/left)	20h42m32s.40

Dec (center)	+67°35′20″.2
Dec (top/left)	+68°08′35″.2
Dec (top/right)	+66°35′35″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+67°00′07″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°34′46″.4

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