Sh2-202

[kirkster501]

Don't see this one coming up often... Sharpless S2-202 in Camelopardalis.  The bright bit at the bottom - that I left in to give scale and luminosity clues - is the the top of the Soul Nebula.  The whole area, looking out into The Perseus arm of our galaxy abounds in very faint gas clouds as can be seen in this image.

An intermediate faint nebula, clearly much more indistinct from the nearby and much more famous Heart and Soul Nebulae.

Samyang 135mm and G2-8300, Astrodon HaRGB.  24 x 300s Ha (3nm) and 9 x 300s each of RGB.

Pixinsight to get to the RGB master and Starless Ha masters and then Photoshop for the blending.  Can do the blending in Pixinsight too with Pixelmath but it is easier in Photoshop.

Anyway, an odd object but I hope you like it.

 

[kirkster501]

A light tweak to the saturation before I got to go to work....!  Whaddayreckon?

[Gina]

Yes, I have seen that when imaging the Heart and Soul widefield (135mm lens and ASI 1600MM-Cool).

[ollypenrice]

Nice one. The two bright stars above the main nebula, both surrounded by faint nebulosity, indicate VdB 14 and 15 and will reward a bit of selective processing or more time.  The colourful open cluster embedded in the Sharpless nebula is Stock 23, AKA Pazimo's Cluster.

Olly

[kirkster501]

10 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Nice one. The two bright stars above the main nebula, both surrounded by faint nebulosity, indicate VdB 14 and 15 and will reward a bit of selective processing or more time.  The colourful open cluster embedded in the Sharpless nebula is Stock 23, AKA Pazimo's Cluster.

Olly

Yes indeed Olly.  To start with I thought the cloudiness in front of the two bright stars was some issue with my capturing, maybe some high haze.  But analysis of other images shows that this is due to nebulosity around those stars. I may revisit and grab more RGB on this at some point.