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IRIS NEBULA - NGC 7023, Drew Evans
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IRIS NEBULA - NGC 7023

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IRIS NEBULA - NGC 7023

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This is a reflection nebula in Cepheus 1300 light-years from Earth. Within, we see a hot newborn star, HD2000775, of 10 solar masses emerging from a massive dust cloud.

The surrounding dust scatters the star's visible light, just as our atmosphere scatters sunlight in the sky, rendering the nebula sky blue. The blue nebula is surrounded by dark obscuring clouds of dust. Throughout this wide field of view you can see a lot of dark interstellar dust (dark nebulae) from which individual stars form from.

OTA: William Optics GT81 using 0.8x Flat6A-81 reducer
Mount: Celestron CGX-L
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Gain: 100

Filter: 2" Baader UV/IR Cut

Night 1
84x300s = 7hrs

Night 2
91x300s = 7.6hrs

Night 3
36x300s = 3hrs

17.6 hours total

Cooling Temperature: -10 Celsius
Auto-guiding: ZWO ASI174MM Mini and ZWO M48 OAG
Control: ZWO ASIAIR Pro

Flagstaff, AZ - Bortle 4 skies

Calibrated in Astro Pixel Processor⁣ with darks and flats
Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom

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IRIS NEBULA - NGC 7023, Drew Evans