Astrophotography by Torsten Mueller


NGC 7538

Emission OR reflection nebula
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Object Information

Description from wikipedia: "NGC 7538, near the more famous Bubble Nebula, is located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located about 9,100 light-years from Earth. It is home to the biggest yet discovered protostar which is about 300 times the size of the Solar System. It is located in the Cepheus' Arm of the Milky Way and is probably part of the Cassiopeia OB2 complex. It is a region of active star formation including several luminous near-IR and far-IR sources. Stars in NGC 7538 are mainly low-mass pre-main-sequence stars."
Type Emission OR reflection nebula
Brightness mag (vis)
Apparent Size 9' x 6'
Distance 0.0091 ly MLy

Exposure Information

Date 2019-07-27
Location Goldbach Remote Telescope
Optics GSO 12" RC f/5.6 (TS CCDT47 Reducer)
Camera ZWO ASI1600MMPRO
Integration 11x180 sec (Luminance) + 3x7x120sec RGB 1x1
(1.35 h total)