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LND 1235 Dark Shark Nebula, LDN 1251 Dark Nebula Vdb 149 & Vdb 150 & VDB 152 Reflection Nebulae - Surrounding Molecular Cloud

By: Mustafa Aydin August 27, 2018 0

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Photographer:

aydinmustafa

Location of Photo:

I took this photo at Karagol Beypazarı Ankara 200 km away from Ankara with Bortle 3 Skies

Date/Time of photo:

This photo is integration of 4 nights 2 nights from august 2017 and 2 nights from august 2018

Equipment:

I used my Nikon D5300 (unmodded) Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC Lens and Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G mount

Description:

These dark nebulae and reflection nebulae are in cepheus very faint objects, they need to have long time integration of several hundred frames. Nikon D5300 Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED Lens @f/3.2 1st and 2nd sets with Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mount 3rd and 4th sets with; Agena StarGuider 50mm guide scope Zwo Asi 120mc-s guide camera Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G mount 1st set; 17.10.2017 95x120" light 2nd set; 18.10.2017 29x120" light 25 dark 25 bias ISO 1600 3rd set; 08.08.2018 137x200" light 4th set; 09.08.2018 27x200" light 20 dark 50 bias ISO 1000 All 4 sets calibrated, aligned and stacked in Pixinsight seperately and integrations stacked and Postprocessed in Pixinsight and last touches in Adobe PS CC and Adobe Camera Raw.