North American Dark Eagle (Barrington Russell)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 58 Cyg · 62 Cyg · IC 5068 · IC 5070 · NGC 6989 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · NGC 7039 · North America Nebula · Pelican Nebula · The star 56 Cyg · The star 57 Cyg · The star 60 Cyg · The star ν Cyg · The star ξ Cyg

North American Dark Eagle, Barrington Russell

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The Dark Eagle of the North America Nebula: Two-Panel Mosaic in HOO.

Having learnt many new things recently, I went back and doubled-down on previous data from the North America Nebula in Cygnus, shooting additional hours to create this highly-detailed two-panel HOO mosaic, plus RGB stars. The level of detail far exceeds my previous attempt at the target, and arguably any of my projects completed so far.

The North America Nebula covers a region more than ten times the area of the full Moon, but its surface brightness is low, so normally it cannot be seen with the unaided eye. The image measures approximately 140 light-years from North to South, at a distance of 2000 light-years. The photograph is therefore looking back in time roughly to the biblical era.

The dramatic dark region bisecting the nebula is interstellar dust cloud L935. Despite appearing thick enough to block the light of a thousand world, the dust is very sparse - just a few hundred molecules per cubic meter. A scoop of this dust the size of the Earth would only weigh a few kilograms!

I’m still using the tiny 51mm refractor telescope I started out with two years ago. Just when I think I’ve pushed it to the limit, I find new methods to dig incredible amounts of detail from my data. The William Optics Redcat51 really is the little telescope that could!

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