M52, Bubble Nebula, pk112-00.1 & V1405 Cas Nova in Cassiopeia (Bradley Watson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: Bubble Nebula · M 52 · NGC 7635 · NGC 7654 · The star 4Cas

M52, Bubble Nebula, pk112-00.1 & V1405 Cas Nova in Cassiopeia, Bradley Watson

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M52, Bubble Nebula, pk112-00.1 & V1405 Cas Nova in Cassiopeia

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Link: https://bgwphotography.com/messier-52

This has been an interesting project over several nights, with a new problem that I managed to understand eventually. I had changed the gain on my camera finally but also decreased camera temp to -15 degrees. Ever since that all images were showing dew, something that I could not see on my telescope lense, eventually I checked documentation for the camera and its rated to work up to a humidity of 80 %, I have been operating in 99%. I decided to increase the temp back to 10 degrees and add a dew band to the camera - problem solved. All in all I lost about 20hrs (4 nights) of imaging time trying to solve this.

I have had some ups and downs with this one culminating in me thinking I had found a new Nova, could not believe my eyes!. I was looking at a star that had a slightly different colour to other stars and wondered why, so I checked other images on AB, at first glance this was not even showing and thought maybe it was an artefact, then I found some images with the star - yes it was a nova found earlier this year by a Japanese observatory to my disappointment lol.

This area is sooo fascinating, there is just so much going with stars of varying colours, the bubble nebula with its amazing shell, gas dispersed every where and well MY nova.

Anyway I hope you enjoy this one as much as have and thanks for looking.

CS
Brad

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