The Tulip nebula and Cygnus X-1 (C. Jonas Moiel)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: B144 · HD189474 · HD189528 · HD226868 · HD227018 · LBN 168 · LBN 171 · Sh2-101

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The Tulip nebula and Cygnus X-1

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The tulip nebula region photographed between August and October 2023 in SHO. I wanted to give this a more natural looking color palette, and tried many techniques of color blending, but ended up doing a dynamic blend in pixelmath using Oiii as the modifier. I also used color masks from Bill Blanshen to improve color a bit.

I was hoping to bring out the X-1 blackhole shockwave as best as I could and would have like to have collected more Oiii data, but happy that it is visible.

I was pretty impressed with the amount of Ha signal in this image. Specifically, the jet like structures (relativistic jets?) connecting the tulip and X-1 area. There is also some nice Ha swirling around in the area of X-1 which I found interesting.

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RA (center)	19h59m19s.354
RA (top/left)	20h00m18s.809
RA (top/right)	19h57m03s.466
RA (bottom/right)	19h58m20s.603
RA (bottom/left)	20h01m35s.268

Dec (center)	+35°20′07″.100
Dec (top/left)	+35°45′11″.100
Dec (top/right)	+35°22′14″.66
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°55′02″.83
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°17′51″.35

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