Mother and child in turbulent sky: VdB 4 and NGC 225 (Mau_Bard)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: LBN 604 · LDN 1291 · LDN 1294 · LDN 1300 · LDN 1302 · NGC 225 · PGC 2631101 · VdB4

Mother and child in turbulent sky: VdB 4 and NGC 225

A lot is going on in this dynamic landscape dominated by the open cluster NGC 225 (nickname: Sailboat Cluster).
Located roughly 2,200 light-years from Earth, the young cluster is only 100-150 million years old.
It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783.

The reflection nebula VdB 4 is probably what remains of the original cloud that generated NGC 225.

The background is very interesting with a dark dust lane crossing the field horizontally (north is pointing right here), and giving origin to several classified knots (i.e. LDN 1300).

The data has been recorded during 3 nights (4, 6, 7 October 2022) from my terrace in Vienna (Austria) under Bortle 7 sky.

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RA (center)	00h43m36s.956
RA (top/left)	00h47m15s.301
RA (top/right)	00h47m09s.786
RA (bottom/right)	00h39m51s.238
RA (bottom/left)	00h40m11s.626

Dec (center)	+61°51′07″.42
Dec (top/left)	+61°18′00″.27
Dec (top/right)	+62°24′58″.70
Dec (bottom/right)	+62°23′48″.30
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°16′52″.36

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