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- Exposure: Ha G B
- All exposures binned 1x1
- Ha 8x1800s, Green 17x714s, Blue 12x900s
- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106
- Mount: Paramount ME
- Camera: SBIG STL-6303 CCD, AstroDon E-Series TruBalance Filters
- Location: JMSM Observatory, New Mexico (Owned by Mike Sherick)
- Date/Time:
- Ha: July 3/4, 2007, 22:31-04:42 MDT
- GB:
- July 17/18 2007, 22:19-02:51 MDT
- July 19/20 2007, 11:09-00:12 MDT
- August 7/8 2007, 22:49-05:17 MDT
- Processing: Taken in MaxIM/DL v4 using CCD Commander. Reduced, aligned, combined sub-exposures, and RGB combine in CCDStack. Color balancing, contrast adjustment, Minimum filter to Green and Blue channel to reduce the cyan stars, levels, curves, color balance, USM, Color Mixer (10% Ha added to Blue channel), and Noise Ninja in Photoshop.
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- Names:
- Sh2-129: Emission nebula (red) occupying most of the frame
- vdB 140: Reflection nebula (blue) in the upper left corner
- Type: Emission and Reflection Nebula
- Constellation: Cepheus
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