NGC 6914 - The Spider Nebula (my name for it!) - 14.5 Hours in SHOrgb (Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove))

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD194007 · HD194220 · HD194260 · HD194708 · HD195033 · HD195089 · HD195100 · HD229145 · HD229170 · HD229188 · HD229204 · HD229236 · HD229255 · HD229265 · HD229274 · HD229279 · HD229286 · HD229288 · HD229294 · HD229297 · LBN 268 · LBN 270 · LBN 273 · LBN 274 · LBN 279 · LBN 280 · LBN 281 · LBN 292 · LDN 897 · LDN 899 · And 4 more.

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NGC 6914 - The Spider Nebula (my name for it!) - 14.5 Hours in SHOrgb

Link: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ngc6914sho

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NGC 6914 - The Spider Nebula (my name for it!) - 14.5 Hours in SHOrgb

Link: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ngc6914sho

Hi Folks,

Today I have released the second Imaging Project coming from the data collected over three nights on September 15, 16, and 21.

NGC 6914 - The Spider Nebula - is located 6,000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus.

It actually does NOT seem to have a popular or common name. Still, after working on this image for several days now, I keep seeing a friendly little spider at the center of this frame, so I have decided to give it my own name - The Spider Nebula!

This image of this rich region of Emission, Reflection, and Dark Nebulae resulted from 14.5 hours of SHOrgb data taken on my William Optics 132mm Platform.

There is not a lot of background info I could find for this object, but there are many images of this object to be found - the vast majority of these are RGB Broadband images, so I decided to image this in Narrowband SHO, and replace the narrowband stars with true RGB broadband stars.

The full posting on this imaging project, including a detailed step-by-step image processing walkthrough can be found here:
https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ngc6914sho

At any rate - thanks for looking. (And If anybody asks you - tell them this is called the Spider Nebula - maybe we can make it stick!)

Thanks,
Pat

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RA (center)	20h24m30s.20
RA (top/left)	20h27m26s.12
RA (top/right)	20h28m03s.44
RA (bottom/right)	20h21m28s.13
RA (bottom/left)	20h21m02s.10

Dec (center)	+42°22′35″.1
Dec (top/left)	+41°26′58″.5
Dec (top/right)	+43°13′55″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°17′57″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°30′50″.9

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