Sidney van den Bergh – Astro La Vista Observatory

VDB 149 in Monochrome

This is van den Bergh 149, a dark nebula in Cepheus. It was taken with the Takahashi FSQ106EDIII and is comprised of 38 Luminance stacked luminance images with an exposure time of 900 seconds each. Total exposure time was 9.5 hours.

VDB 126

Another day, another catalog… This time we have an object that is listed in the “VDB” catalog of 159 reflection nebulae that was published in 1966 by Sidney van den Bergh. Considering the beauty of this object, further study is needed. Sixty eight five minute LRGB images from the Takahashi FSQ106EDIII telescope were stacked and processed in MaximContinue reading “VDB 126”