Sharpless 129 Flying Bat Nebula in Cepheus



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Date: 15 Sep 2023
Location: Cairds Farm, Sussex
Exposure: 110 x 2min at ISO 1600
Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180ED on Skywatcher EQ6 mount
Camera: Canon EOS R (unmodified)
Guiding: Nikkor 300mm lens with QHY5 camera.
Filters: None

Processing: Stacked in PixInsight, white balanced with PCC, colour correction matrix applied and stretched with Arcsinh Stretch (to preserve hue and saturation) then sRGB gamma curve applied.

Comments: Sky quality ranged from 20.9 to 21.08 according to my Unihedron Sky Quality Meter.
Most images of this nebula are taken in narrowband in order to also show the extremely faint Ou4 nebula "The Giant Squid". Don't bother looking for the squid in my image because it's far too faint! But there's plenty of orange/brown interstellar dust instead.