Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  VdB152
vdB 152 - Cosmic Penguin, mr1337
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vdB 152 - Cosmic Penguin

vdB 152 - Cosmic Penguin, mr1337
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vdB 152 - Cosmic Penguin

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This was a stretch object for me - with bortle 8-9 skies outside of NYC I wasn't sure I'd get anything useful so just tried to pile on the integration time to see if it would be somewhat usable. It was tough getting rid of all the light pollution since the signal was so faint but managed to get something like the image that inspired this one: Jason Guenzel's from 2018 (https://www.astrobin.com/367879).

Will revisit sometime from a dark sky location to see if I can get a little more definition in the dark nebula. I took a good deal of 10 min exposures with 3nm HA filters and still didn't get much useful in the background so that is on the list for another season as well.

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vdB 152 - Cosmic Penguin, mr1337