Sh2-155 Cave Nebula

Constellation: Cepheus        Distance: 2400 lightyears

CAVE nebula

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Sh2-155 wordt ook wel de Grotnevel of Cave nebula genoemd. Het is een HII-gebied (een wolk van geïoniseerd waterstofgas) waar actief nieuwe sterren worden gevormd. De nevel werd pas in 1959 voor het eerst genoteerd in de tweede editie van de Sharpless-catalogus.


Image spcefications:
  • Exposure: 10,75 hours, LRGBHaO3 = 60:60:60:60:315:180 minutes
  • Camera: ZWO2600MM, Temp -10 ° C, Baader LRGB filters, Astrodon 5nm Ha and 3nm O3
  • Instrument: TEC 140 with field flattener, focal distance 980 mm
  • Guiding: TS Off Axisguider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar autoguider and PHD
  • Mount: Paramount MX+
  • Ambient temperature: Between 17 ° C and 23 ° C
  • Location: Nozières, France
  • Date: 23 August 2025 and 4, 5, 8 and 9 July 2026
  • © Frans Kroon, Arno-MarkBlesgraaf

Image acquisition with Sequence Generator Pro:
  • 21 H-alpha of 15 min, 12 O3 of 15 min, binned 1x1
  • 6 Lum of 10 min, 6 Red + 6 Green + 6 Blue of 5 min, binned 1x1
  • 20 Flat fields with flatfield panel
  • 20 Dark frames of 15, 10 and 5 min
  • 50 Bias frames

Processing in PixInsight 1.9.3

    Lineair:
  • ImageCalibration, CosmeticCorrection and StarAlignment
  • ImageIntegration and ChannelCombination RGB
  • MultiscaleGradiantCorrection, ImageSolver and SPCC
  • BlurXTerminator on Ha, Lum and RGB

  • Non Lineair:
  • MultiscaleAdaptiveStrech on Ha, O3, Lum and RGB
  • NoiseXTerminator on Ha, O3, Lum and RGB
  • Create StarImage of RGB with StarXTerminator, MorphologicalTransformation
  • LRGBCombination

  • StarXTerminator on Ha and O3
  • HDRMultiscaleTransform
  • PixelMath to combine Ha, O3 and LRGB with
  • PixelMath to put together: StarlessImage + StarImage