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Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132)

quot;A furious cosmic horse gets blinded by a divine blue lightquot;br/Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132) in Cepheusbr/br/Sharpless 132 is a very faint emission nebula, it locates at the border of Cepheus and Lacerta. Distance is about 10.000 lightyears. My photo covers about one square degree of the sky (63x63quot;). The blue color in the image is from the emission of an ionized Oxygen (O-III). quot;The divine blue lightquot; at horses face seems to be an Oxygen jet of some kind, or it's just a tens of light years long oddly shaped area of glowing gas. The shape can be seen in H-alpha channel too. (Ionized Hydrogen)br/br/Technical detailsbr/br/Processing work flowbr/Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.br/Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.br/Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 33 iterations, added at 50% weightbr/Color combine in PS CS3br/Levels and curves in PS CS3.br/br/Imaging opticsbr/Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f7 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescopebr/br/Cameras and filtersbr/Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheelbr/Guider camera, Lodestar x2br/Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alphabr/Astrodon filter, 3nm O-IIIbr/br/Exposure timesbr/H-alpha, 9 x 1200s = 3hbr/O-III, 3 x 1200s = 1hbr/S-II, 3x1200s = 1h

Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132)

Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132)

quot;A furious cosmic horse gets blinded by a divine blue lightquot;br/Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132) in Cepheusbr/br/Sharpless 132 is a very faint emission nebula, it locates at the border of Cepheus and Lacerta. Distance is about 10.000 lightyears. My photo covers about one square degree of the sky (63x63quot;). The blue color in the image is from the emission of an ionized Oxygen (O-III). quot;The divine blue lightquot; at horses face seems to be an Oxygen jet of some kind, or it's just a tens of light years long oddly shaped area of glowing gas. The shape can be seen in H-alpha channel too. (Ionized Hydrogen)br/br/Technical detailsbr/br/Processing work flowbr/Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.br/Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.br/Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 33 iterations, added at 50% weightbr/Color combine in PS CS3br/Levels and curves in PS CS3.br/br/Imaging opticsbr/Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f7 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescopebr/br/Cameras and filtersbr/Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheelbr/Guider camera, Lodestar x2br/Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alphabr/Astrodon filter, 3nm O-IIIbr/br/Exposure timesbr/H-alpha, 9 x 1200s = 3hbr/O-III, 3 x 1200s = 1hbr/S-II, 3x1200s = 1h