Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  The star 16 Cep
LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula, Steve_Peters
LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula
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LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula

LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula, Steve_Peters
LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula
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LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula

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For some scary summer fun, I shot the Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) in Cepheus, right from my back yard in Bend, OR. Cute little guy, isn't he? Cute but faint. This image consists of 123 exposures of 5 minutes each, for a total of 10.25 hrs of integration captured over four nights, along with calibration frames. It was first light with my ASI2600MC Pro cooled astro camera, which I used with an Orion ED80T (f/6) carbon fiber triplet refractor. I did not use any filters for this image. Star spike added for effect.

This is just a first pass at processing Celestial Jaws. He needs work, but I'll save that for another day.

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LDN 1235 - Shark Nebula, Steve_Peters