This is a complex of faint nebulas and star clusters in Cepheus: While this exposure shows the field as one large nebula, the arc-shaped region at top is catalogued as NGC 7822. The region below with dark lanes through it is Cederblad 214. The loose open cluster at right is NGC 7762, with the small yellowish cluster (dimmed by interstellar dust) is King 11. A small, sparse cluster at the centre of Ced214 is Berkeley 59. The field of view is about 8° by 5.5° with the 250mm focal length RedCat astrograph. This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the William Optics RedCat 51mm f/4.9 astrographic refractor with the red-sensitive Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 800, and blended with a stack of 8 x 15-minute exposures through the Optolong L-Enhance narrowband filter, with the EOS Ra at ISO 3200, to make up for the nearly 3 stops loss of light from the filter. But it really pops out all the faint nebulosity. All images stacked, aligned and blended with Photoshop. Guiding was with the Lacerta MGEN 3 stand-alone autoguider, which also controlled the camera shutter and applied dithering of 10 pixels between each frame to reduce thermal noise without having to apply LENR in camera or dark frames. This was on the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount.
NGC 7822 emission nebula (top, with North up) on Cassiopeia-Cepheus border, with nebula Cederblad 214 at bottom and open clusters at right NGC 7762 (bottom) and King 11 (top). Stack of 9 x 15 minute exposures at ISO 800 with Canon 5D MkII and 105mm A&M apo refractor at f/5.1 with Borg .85 reducer/flattener. Median combined to eliminate satellite trails in 2 images.
The region of nebulosity on the Cepheus-Cassiopeia border with NGC 7822 (top) and Ced 214 (bottom). This is a stack of 15 x 7 minute exposures at f/4.4 with the 92mm apo refractor and filter-modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800. Taken from New Mexico. Focus is a little soft.
