Location / Date

Zellerndorf, Oct - Dec 2017

Telescope / Mount / Guiding

ASA 10" Astrograph, ASA 3" Wynne-Corrector (focal length 910mm)
ASA DDM60, no Guiding

Camera / Exposure

Moravian G3-16200, Astrodon filters

2-panel mosaic:

Lum     2 x (122 x 6min)
R         2 x (15 x 6min)
G        2 x (15 x 6min)
B        2 x (15 x 6min)

Total exposure time: 33h 24min

Processing

PixInsight, Fitswork, Photoshop

Notes

IC 348 (also known as IC 1985) is a 2 million year old open star cluster surrounded by the reflection nebula vdB 19 (also known as Cederblad 20), located 890 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Perseus.
The light from the roughly 400 stars in the cluster is scattered by clouds of dust in the star-forming region, producing the reflection nebula. The cluster’s brightest members are hot, bright bluish Main Sequence stars, but some stars are still in the process of formation, so star formation is an ongoing process in the region.

IC 348 and the dark nebulas Barnard (B) 3 and 4 are embedded in the star-forming region called the Perseus OB2 molecular cloud.

This image was "Astrofoto der Woche (AdW)" (astrophoto of the week) on 2018/07/09 (week 28) and 3. place in "Astrofoto des Jahres 2018" (astrophoto of the year) on Astronomie.de:
28. Woche - IC 348, Cederblad 20 und LBN 758 - eine nebulalandschaft im Perseus