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van den Bergh 18 in Perseus

Image Description and Details :

Situated on the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud, van den Bergh 18 is a small, faint reflection nebula (blue, center). It is surrounded by various LDN and LBN dark nebulae, as well as several PGC galaxies and the open star cluster NGC1342, (bottom right). This image consists of LUM + one shot color data simultaneously captured from two scopes: a CFF 135mm APO refractor with a ZWO ASI6200MM CMOS camera, and a CFF105mm APO refractor with a ZWO ASI2600MC CMOS camera. In total, there is 26 hours of data for this image, processed with PixInsight.



Copyright: Joel Short

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