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Sh2-140 and surroundings in Cepheus, Robin Livermore
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Sh2-140 and surroundings in Cepheus

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Sh2-140 and surroundings in Cepheus, Robin Livermore
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Sh2-140 and surroundings in Cepheus

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This is the area centred around Sh2-140 in Cepheus. It's an area rich in Ha fields, small reflection nebulae, dust and dark nebulae, and great for a broadband wide field image like this. 

Starless processing of the latter stages of stretching has allowed me to push the dust and faint areas. One downside of this is that the larger stars have fairly large halos, but I'm happy to go with that. The bright star to the bottom left is mag 4.4 Alkurah, which also has a couple of (artistic?) flares!

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Sh2-140 and surroundings in Cepheus, Robin Livermore

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