NIGHT OVER ONTARIO
Pictures have appeared on the cover and inside editions of SkyNews magazine and in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazine, and as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
“ Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,”
W.B.Yeats
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vdB 152 in Cepheus. Devouring stars !! 7.5 hours of exposure. TEC 140@f7 and FLI ML8300 camera on Takahashi NJP mount. Lum 1x1 27x10m, RGB each 2x2 12x5m. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Observatory, Grafton, Ontario on July 6 and 8, 2011.
Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition", mysterious reflection nebula vdB 152 really is very faint. It lies about 1400 light-years away, along the northern Milky Way in the royal constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of a large molecular cloud, pockets of cosmic dust in the region block light from background stars or scatter light from the embedded bright star (top) giving parts of the nebula a characteristic blue color. Ultraviolet light from the star is also thought to cause a dim reddish luminescence in the nebular dust. Though stars do form in molecular clouds, this star seems to have only accidentally wandered into the area, as its measured velocity through interstellar space is very different from the cloud's velocity. (text courtesy of APOD)