IC 348 (vdB 19)

This is a star cluster with reflection nebula in constellation Perseus about 1000-1250 light years from earth.
Many of the young stars in that star forming region have circumstellar disks and are pretty young with an age of about 2 million years. We might witness the birth of planetary systems around these stars when we look deeper into it.
The bright star in this image is Atik (omicron Persei, for me it is the big toe of Perseus foot 😉 ) which is not related to the nebula.
This region is extremely interesting for studies on star birth, planetary growth, star development and cloud dynamics. Many exotic objects like T Tauri stars, Herbig-Haro objects and brown dwarf have been identified. Quite some scientific publications on objects in this region can be found.
This object has been discovered twice by Truman Safford in 1866 and Edward Barnard in 1893. John Dreyer, the author of the IC catalogues did not realize that these two discoveries referred to the same object and added it under two different numbers in his catalogues.
Because this region of the sky is close to the ecliptic plane, traces of minor asteroids can be found almost every time you take images here.
I could identify eight asteroids in this image. See below for more details for seven of them. Differently colored arrows indicate minor planets seen in different nights.
Celestron RASA 11 v2
Celestron CGX-L mount
RisingCam ATR3CMOS26000KPA
UV/IR Cut filter
Bortle 4-5
No moon
620x30sec (5h10min)
110x10sec (18m20sec, for stars only)
PixInsight

