
Located along the plane of the Milky Way in the Cepheus constellation is the diffuse emission nebula Sh2-155, commonly referred to as the Cave Nebula. This widefield view shows the so-called Cave at centre of the image, critically located at the boundary of the massive Cepheus molecular cloud and the hot, young stars of the Cepheus OB-3 association which ionize the surrounding gases to great effect.

Overall the features are very faint and even with a total integration time of nearly 40-hours for the full data-set the Cave is difficult to capture and process using the Hubble SHO palette but nonetheless has resulted in a striking final image (see top-of-the-page). An alternative bicolour HOO cropped version (see below) perhaps shows the details of Cave itself better?

| IMAGING DETAILS | |
| Object | SH2-155 Cave Nebula AKA Caldwell 9 |
| Constellation | Cepheus |
| Distance | 2,400 light-years |
| Size | 50 x 30 arc minutes ~70.0 light-years; Cave Nebula ~10.0 light- years |
| Apparent Magnitude | +7.7 |
| Scope | Takahashi FSQ 106 FL 530mm f/5 + Moonlight Nightcrawler focuser |
| Mount | Paramount MyT |
| Guiding | Yes |
| Camera | QSI 683-WSG8 KAF-8300 full frame CCD sensor 5.4nm pixels |
| FOV 1.94o x 1.46o Resolution 2.1”/pix. Image array 3326 x 2,507 pix | |
| Processing | Deep Sky Stacker, PixInsight v1.8.8-7, Photoshop CS3, Topaz Denoise |
| Image Location | Centre – RA 22:57:37.145 DEC +62:32:54.296 |
| Exposures | 20 Ha 30 OIII 29 SII x 1,800 secs @ -20C Total Integration Time: 39hr 30min |
| Calibration | 24 x 1,800 secs Darks x200 Bias & x32 Flat Darks |
| Location & Darkness | Deep Sky West – amateur hosting facility near Rowe, New Mexico – USA SQM Typically >= 21.7 |
| Date & Time | Q3 2018 |