SH2-114 W/RGB Stars (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 67 Cyg · 67 sig Cyg · HD202880 · HD202989 · HD203097 · HD203155 · HD203156 · HD203233 · HD203696 · HD203713 · LBN 333 · LBN 346 · LBN 347 · PK083-08.1 · Sh2-113 · Sh2-114 · The star σ Cyg

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SH2-114 W/RGB Stars

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I've always admired the dragons of Ara and wished I could image them. Well the closest thing we can come to it here in North America is SH2-114 or the common name is the Flying Dragon in Cygnus so I decided to give it a go. Its a very dim object for sure but I went after it with 29hrs of data and I'm pleased with the results. I hope you like it as well! With it being in the middle of the Milky Way there are SO MANY stars in the field that I hardly stretched the star layer. I shot this with my new wide field setup, my Esprit100 and I used my NBZ for NB data as well as my L-Pro, but forgot and ended up with 5.7hrs of UV/IR Cut data for star color. That is what I used btw for star colors.

I used the Lum of the NB stars over the RGB stars layer and blended them together and it really gave me a nice blend to the star and starless layers.

Collecting this data was very challenging here in the US. As many of us know the smoke and humidity issues we have been struggling with have given us many processing challenges!

Hope you like!

Dale

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Title: Starless Layer

Description: Not a big starless version person but I thought this was cool.

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Title: Adjusted the brightness of BG and FG

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Title: Stretched the Star Layer a bit more

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Title: Added Color Profile

Description: Found my problem with why my image didn't look like it does on my monitor when I uploaded it to Astrobin. Needed to assign a color profile.

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Astrometry.net job	8545153
PixInsight job	ANPE3A8IACY1CT4U8HIKT15L2N6YRAFN
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h20m55s.25
RA (top/left)	21h25m05s.18
RA (top/right)	21h23m36s.45
RA (bottom/right)	21h16m39s.12
RA (bottom/left)	21h18m18s.88

Dec (center)	+38°48′08″.10
Dec (top/left)	+37°55′37″.7
Dec (top/right)	+39°52′57″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+39°40′10″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+37°43′12″.1

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