Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  B175  ·  LBN 528  ·  LBN 531  ·  LDN 1217  ·  LDN 1219  ·  PK111+11.1  ·  VdB152
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vdB152

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vdB152

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Van den Bergh 152 is a blue reflection nebula at the tip of a large dark nebula. This complex, also called Wolf's Cave, is located about 1,400 light years away in the direction of the constellation Cepheus. This area is part of a large molecular cloud named the Cepheus Flare by Edwin Hubble. The opaque dust blocks most of the starlight behind it, but blue light from a young star is scattered and reflected off some of the particles to illuminate the reflection part of the nebula. The red filamentary structure is a supernova remnant. 

To tease out all of these features was an incredible challenge. It required about 15 hours of wideband exposure time to adequately capture the details of the blue reflection and dark nebulae, and another 20 hours of H-alpha r to adequately capture the faint, red emission nebula.

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vdB152, Jeff Ridder