Here's my fist capture for the season of 2015, a Hybrid view within the beautiful Gamma Cygni Region using the QHY11/TAK 180 captured in OIII and mapped as Blue together with H-Alpha captured last year mapped to Red. The Image is cropped by around 40% due to the camera not being orientated to my image from last year and was meant to be only a test.
My other images captured within The Gamma Cygni Region from last season can be seen here
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Size: 3.15 x 1.93 deg (3077 x 1888)
Captured March 28, 2015
Total integration Time 230 minutes
Location: DownUnderObservatory, Fremont, MI
H-Alpha 150 min, 15 x 10 min bin 1x1
OIII 80 min, 10 x 8 min 1 x 1
QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -20C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
Not your ordinary planetary nebula, which are produced when sun-like stars enter the last phase of their lives by becoming a red-giant and subsequently shedding their stellar atmospheres. The Crescent is, like other planetary nebulae, being ionized by it's parent star's intense radiation, but unlike most other planetary nebulae, The Crescent is also being ionized by the nearby Wolf-Rayet star "WR 136" whose intense winds are colliding with the material blown off by the Crescent's parent star. The end result is a beautiful image of two distinct shock waves colliding with each other in the depths of space, heating the gasses to temperatures so extreme that it emits X-ray radiation in addition to wavelengths within the visible spectrum of light.
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