Images were taken from the beautiful Portuguese sky between May 20th and June 27th, 2025. Thank you to the AroTeam who takes care of my remote set-up.
No fewer than 2623 images was taken (before process selection) and Finally 64 hours through interference filters (LRGB) was used to produced this image.
Set-up is composed with TOA130 NS with Takahashi 67 Flattener on mounted on a EQ8-R Pro. Main camera is a ZWO ASI2600mm Pro
About this beautiful object:
Stars are forming in this Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1251. About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward the Cepheus flare region. Across the spectrum, astronomical explorations of the obscuring interstellar clouds reveal energetic shocks and outflows associated with newborn stars. Distant background galaxies also lurk on the scene, buried behind the dusty expanse. This view spans about two full moons on the sky, or 17 light-years at the estimated distance of LDN 1251