DSLR astrophotography by Sergi Verdugo

NGC7129 and NGC7142

DETAILS
Exposure: 45×360″ @ ISO 1600
Telescope: Skywatcher Newton 8″ f5 with Baader MPCC
Filter: Hutech IDAS LPS P2 2″
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro
Camera: Amp-off Modded & Cooled Canon 350D
Date: 9th September 2010
Location: Coll de Jou (Barcelona, Spain)
Comments: It was very windy at the beginning of the night and the seeing remained very bad all night.

NGC7129 is an open cluster star-forming region in a reflection nebula located at constellation Cepheus and lies some 3000 light-years away from the earth.
Astronomers estimate that many of the bright stars that form the cluster are younger than 1 million years old. These young stars are very energetic and emit large amounts of radiation that break apart clouds of gas that surround them. Some parts within the nebula glow pink due to the excited hydrogen gas in the region.