Aquila-Rift: vdB 123 and Serpens Reflection Nebulosity: Widefield and Details (Torben van Hees)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: LBN 96 · LBN 97 · LBN 98 · LDN 592 · PK031+05.1 · VdB123

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Aquila-Rift: vdB 123 and Serpens Reflection Nebulosity: Widefield and Details

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VdB 123 is the blue reflection nebula that you can see as whips in this image. Beyond it, the dark filaments of the Serpens Cloud are visible, part of the Aquila Rift, a molecular cloud. The small, very red bipolar structure is the Serpens Reflection Nebula, which really seems just to be light from a young star that is reflected by the surrounding gas and dust clouds.

There was some good weather in the beginning of July: Free of clouds and rather excellent seeing for my location: I got subs down to 1.8" FWHM even for this low target. I also could put aside my lingering worries that the rather large stars I've been getting from the RC+reducer are due to some optical problem - it's just been a few months of abysmal seeing.

Revision C is only the Epsilon data which I believe can stand on its own, so I marked it as final. Revision B is the data with a lot of luminance from the RC for some fine detail in the reflection nebulae.

I didn't use any sharpening processing on these images. Only color calibration, noise reduction and GHS stretching.

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