Iris Nebula (Home)

Here’s the Iris Nebula. It’s a dark nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. The Iris itself is quite bright but it’s surrounded by a dark nebula that’s quite tricky to capture in light polluted skies. I imaged this target because I wanted to compare how a my Bortle 6 sky compares to Bortle 1 in Wales. I thought this would be a disaster from my location but actually it turned out much better than I thought it would. It’s also taken using HDR mode on my Touptek IMX585 using the new 4.36 firmware. It seems that this finally works ok after a year of waiting

Skywatcher Evoguide 50ED with Starizona Flattener, Az-Gti, UV filter, Risingcam IMX585, guided, 9hrs of data