Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  HD224446  ·  LBN 598  ·  PK120+18.1  ·  Sh2-174
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SH2-174 or Valentine's rose nebula, gmadkat
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SH2-174 or Valentine's rose nebula

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SH2-174 or Valentine's rose nebula, gmadkat
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SH2-174 or Valentine's rose nebula

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This is a really cool and faint PN that I was curious to image from my Bortle 6 home to see if I could get any details out, I literally saw nothing in the 300sec SHO subs!! Success? I am not sure, it took 40 plus hours of SHO to get any sort of color and detail that looked interesting. I used SHO to get some of the S details out. The white dwarf star appears as a very blue star in the center of the blue region, which I found unusual.
I also thought after bringing out the fainter OIII regions that this PN looks a bit like a turkey.

It was a painful one to process and I was hoping for some IFN from home but abandoned that idea quickly!! Chose to minimize the background and get the nebula detailed instead.

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