Cocoon Nebula - IC 1546 (HaRGB) (James Hawks)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: B168 · Cocoon Nebula · HD208362 · IC 5146 · LBN 424 · LDN 1055 · Sh2-125 · VdB147

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Cocoon Nebula - IC 1546 (HaRGB)

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Cocoon Nebula - IC 1546 (HaRGB)

The Cocoon Nebula, approximately 2500 light years away, is located in the constellation Cygnus. IC 5146 is a compact star-forming region, with interstellar dust clouds. The NGC description refers to IC 5146 as a "cluster of 9.5 magnitude stars involved in a bright and dark nebula".

This image was captured, in a Queen Creek (Arizona) Bortle 7 backyard, using a Celestron EdgeHD 11" telescope with a 0.7x focal reducer. The telescope is mounted on a 10Micron GM2000 HPS II mount. The camera is a ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro using Antlia 3nm HA and VPro LRGB. It was captured over 5 nights (9-14-2022 to 9-19-2022). The images were stacked/processed in Pixinsight and fine-tuning done in Photoshop.

Acquisition:
   Location: Queen Creek, AZ Bortle 7
   Dates: 2022-09-14 to 2022-09-19
   Lights (Dithered, Cooled 0°C, Gain 100):
       36 x 600s HA
       45 x 300s R
       45 x 300s G
       45 x 300s B
   Bias: 200
   Flats: 25

Hardware:
   Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM PRO
   Scope: Celestron EdgeHD 11"
   Focal Reducer: Celestron 0.7x
   Focuser: Prodigy Microfocuser
   Guide Camera: ASI 174mm Mini
   Guide Scope: ZWO OAG-L
   Mount: GM2000 HPS II
   Filters: Antlia 3nm HA, Antlia VPro LRGB

Software:
   NINA
   Pixinsight
   Photoshop

Processing:
   Stacked in Pixinsight (WBPP, SubframeSelector, ImageIntegration)
   Pixinsight (DCrop, DBE, EZDecon, EZDenoise, MaskedStretch, PixelMath, BGNeutralization, SCNR, StarXTerminator, Curves, ArcsignhStretch)
   AstroFlat Pro in Photoshop
   APF-R Filter
   Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop
   Color/Levels Adjustments

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6331006
PixInsight job	K0HG33QNSZ7781LHZ1KYFJE4IXEJ1TXY
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h53m28s.120
RA (top/left)	21h54m42s.646
RA (top/right)	21h52m11s.812
RA (bottom/right)	21h52m13s.907
RA (bottom/left)	21h54m43s.802

Dec (center)	+47°15′49″.23
Dec (top/left)	+47°23′13″.18
Dec (top/right)	+47°22′42″.97
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°08′21″.45
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°08′52″.70

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