VdB 14 & 15

[Hughsie]

VdB 14 & 15

The VdB catalogue was published in 1966 by Sidney van den Bergh and contains 159 reflection nebula. It details information for all BD and CD stars north of -33 degrees which are surrounded by reflection nebulosity visible on the blue and red prints of the Palomar Sky Survey.

 

Here we can view VdB 14 (top) and VdB 15 (bottom) in the constellation Camelopardalis.

 

Data

The data for this image was captured across the nights of the 18th and 19th January 2024 as follows;

• Light frames 350 x 120 s
• Flat frames 30
• Darks for Flats 30
• Dark frames 25

Total integration time 11h 40 mins

 

Equipment

• William Optics Z193 refractor with 0.8x reducer.
• ZWO ASI194MC Pro Cooled camera.
• Sesto Senso motor focuser.
• Chroma 1.25" Luminance filter.
• SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro mount.
• Pegasus Ultimate Power box V2.
• Pegasus 150 Flatmaster.

 

Software

• N.I.N.A.
• All data was squeezed, crushed and smeared in PixInsight.

 

 

Edited January 22 by Hughsie

[RobertI]

Wonderful image of an interesting duo of nebulae John. 👍 

PS: Your text is invisible when using SGL’s default ‘white’ theme - thought you should know. 🙂

[Hughsie]

3 hours ago, RobertI said:

Wonderful image of an interesting duo of nebulae John. 👍 

PS: Your text is invisible when using SGL’s default ‘white’ theme - thought you should know. 🙂

Many thanks for letting me know. Hopefully the text is visible now.

[RobertI]

3 hours ago, Hughsie said:

Hopefully the text is visible now.

Sure is 👍