Sharpless 2-129


Combination of 10, 3 minute exposures using red, green and blue filters.
SBIG ST-9XE CCD. 5" f/5 refractor at prime focus.

Sharpless 2-129 is a large and very faint, cresent-shaped emission nebula in Cepheus, about 3 degrees north-west of IC 1396. Some of the brightest patches of the nebula are just visible at the left-hand edge of the image.