Lobster Claw Nebula

[Craig123]

The Lobster Claw 

 Swimming  in to my telescopes view during clear spells in the first few weeks of 2021. Some cold nights with  large accumulations of snow on the hillside added shoveling to the  set up routine, the temperature getting down to a respectable  minus 14. 
Aswell as the main object catalogued as Sharpless 157, a pretty open star cluster can be seen in at the lower right claw  ( NGC 1750) with Lyn's bright nebula seen up at centre left. This huge space crustacean  in Cassiopeia is 11050 light years away and was captured over 4 nights. 19 hours in Sulpher, Hydrogen and Oxygen emmisions.

Esprit 100

ZWO asi1600 mono 

HEQ5 stellar drive 5 

PixInsight 

Thanks for looking 

 

[Sunshine]

Great shot! this is one nebula named accordingly, it's a lobster claw alright!

[Craig123]

On 15/03/2021 at 21:39, Sunshine said:

Great shot! this is one nebula named accordingly, it's a lobster claw alright!

Thanks. Boiled and ready for consumption 😁

[CraigT82]

Very nice! Such an interesting open cluster to the lower right too.

[Craig123]

8 hours ago, CraigT82 said:

Very nice! Such an interesting open cluster to the lower right too.

Many thanks and Yes.. When I loaded up the subs that cluster  caught my attention before anything else.