Barnard 175 & Vdb 152
The dark nebula Barnard 175 (apparent size 60 arcminutes), 1,400 light years from us, lies in the Cepheus constellation. At the top of this dark nebula, lies the bright VDB 152 (Van den Bergh 152) reflection bright nebula (apparent size 12.0x6.0 arcminutes). The star BD +690 1231 seems to be the lighting source for this nebula. It is believed that this star is a passing star through this nebula (so is not thought to have formed there). The VDB 152 open cluster (apparent size 25 arcminutes) has less of 50 members.
The whole complex (b175 and VDB 152) named Wolf’s Cave, first photographed by August Kopff (Max Wolf’s assistant) in 1908.
Technical data of the photo :
Telescope : Takahashi FSQ 106 ED
Mount : AP Mach1 GTo
Camera : QSI 683
Guiding : Off axis, Asi Zwo 120mm, PHD
LRGB
L 17x300s
RGB 7x300s each
Processed in PixinSight and Photoshop
Skyros Island, Greece, June 2015
During my involvement in photographing the "deep sky" I missed the accompaniment of music, as my musical experience guides me. So I decided to fill my astrophotos with my music. From September 2016 as a starting point, therefore, together with the Flaming Star Nebula, I present to You, the ‘Floydish Pulsar I’, as my first musical composition (composition, performance and production by me), always inspired by these images.
Parallel Words ! and Dancing Stars I, complete my first trilogy.
Emjoy !