Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  16 Cep  ·  The star 16 Cep
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LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless, John Verderame
LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless, John Verderame

LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless

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LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless, John Verderame
LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless, John Verderame

LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless

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I reworked this image some to tone down a few star halos that were in it, then messed up the mouse over when I resubmitted the image to AstroBin, so reposting it now.

This was my first attempt at this object, and it was a real challenge!  It's the longest exposure time I've yet used on any image, over a period of 3 nights, all of which had good seeing and transparency.  I had to remove a slight gradient due to a little interference from the Tucson light dome, and then also tone down a few star halos, but overall I'm happy with it.  It was quite fun applying StarXTerminator to it and seeing the result, which I've included here as a mouse over.

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160 Light frames, 3-minutes each, ISO 800
40 Bias frames

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LDN 1235 Dark Shark Nebula (redo) Mouse over for Starless, John Verderame