Sh2-129 and OU4 in Grayscale (Bruce Donzanti)

Sh2-129 and OU4 in Grayscale

Given my area being hit by Hurricane Ian and Tropical Storm Nicole, topped off by a nasty thunderstorm over the past few weeks, the skies have not been conducive to any type of sky watching, let alone astrophotography. In fact, we continue to have very bad evening skies and it is expected to be like this into December. Sh2-129, a large but faint emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus about 9318 LYs from Earth, along with the more recently discovered OU4 nebula which appears to lie within Sh2-129, was intended to be in a lovely red (Sh2-129, Ha signal) and blue (OU4, OIII signal) narrowband image, as so many others have displayed on Astrobin and other sites. But that will now have to wait until next year and thus, I am posting the very limited data I could collect to present a decent monochrome image. It really deserved more than twice what I have collected. While this is disappointing, I am just thankful that my observatory roof did not blow off and have its contents destroyed, given we had gusting winds up to 70mph and 14" of rain. As the skies are not good these days, I'm going to take this time to actually swap my cameras so future images from the Tak FSQ-85EDX will be with the ASI6200MM and the C11" EdgeHD will now use the ASI2600MM. I think this arrangement will benefit the FOV of many objects from both scopes. Of course, now time to make adjustments due to sensor/optical tilt.

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Takahashi FSQ-85EDX Petzval Quadruplet

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RA (center)	21h12m42s.41
RA (top/left)	21h23m26s.68
RA (top/right)	21h14m13s.74
RA (bottom/right)	21h01m48s.83
RA (bottom/left)	21h11m18s.43

Dec (center)	+59°58′32″.5
Dec (top/left)	+59°42′45″.9
Dec (top/right)	+61°20′13″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°11′01″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°36′49″.2

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