M52, the Bubble, and lots more

[Fegato]

I was pleased to grab three or four hours of clear sky between the cloud and wet on 1st and then 7th December. This allowed me to tick off another in my list of broadband targets that are more often imaged in narrowband. I went for a 2 panel mosaic to get a nice squarish field around the central targets of M52, the bubble nebula and companions, and to provide a reach from Sharpless 2-153 on the left to 2-156 (IC1470) on the right.

There's so much going on in this field, plenty of which is uncatalogued. As well as M52 there is the smaller open cluster NGC7510 to the lower right, lots of emission nebulosity, dust and quite a few areas of reflection nebulosity. And then near the centre, that strange bubble-like planetary nebula NGC 7635.

RASA 11 v2 on CEM120, ZWO ASI2400MC Pro, 250 x 30" (2h 5') across both panels

[ollypenrice]

Cracking image with lots of depth and texture. I really do like it and love seeing what's 'really' going on rather than the highly selective content of narrowband.

Olly

[gorann]

Great image and great idea Robin! Really nice to se a broadband version of this area.

[Fegato]

On 09/12/2023 at 13:04, ollypenrice said:

Cracking image with lots of depth and texture. I really do like it and love seeing what's 'really' going on rather than the highly selective content of narrowband.

Olly

 

1 hour ago, gorann said:

Great image and great idea Robin! Really nice to se a broadband version of this area.

 

thanks Olly & Göran! Seems to have become a thing of mine going for these sort of targets in broadband - a Pacman to come shortly. Lucky with the dark skies I guess, if not the clear ones!