Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  HD212955  ·  HD213021  ·  HD214710  ·  HD215038  ·  LBN 558  ·  LDN 1251
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LDN1251 Rotting Fish Nebula, Chris Ashford
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LDN1251 Rotting Fish Nebula

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LDN1251 Rotting Fish Nebula

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I was looking for a dark nebula to have a go at, and was perusing the LDN catalog for something narrow-field that I could shoot in a single night. The Rotting Fish Nebula sounded interesting

However, this was the night I had guiding problems - I had almost 10 hours of data but had to throw away half of it. This target is circumpolar so I'll get more data once I get my iOptron Pier fixed.

I processed it anyway just to see what 5 hours of a dark nebula would reveal.....

LDN 1251 is relatively close to us, at a distance of approximately 1,000 light-years. Associated with LDN 1251 are several Herbig-Haro objects. These objects appear as small patches of nebulosity and are linked to newly born stars.

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LDN1251 Rotting Fish Nebula, Chris Ashford