WR 134 (Walter Leonhard Schramböck)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: LBN 182 · NGC 6883

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WR 134

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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WR 134

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

This celestial object has been on my bucket list for two years now, and this August was very generous in terms of clear nights, at least for this area, so I took pictures as long as I could and as much as my patience allowed.

I wanted to use all seven filters if possible, but that didn't make the editing any easier as you can imagine.

It took a lot of attempts before I came to this result, with which I am now reasonably satisfied.

The images were drizzled and each filter was individually pre-processed.
After merging the LRGBHSO images, I created another RGB image and integrated the stars from this into the final image.
In between there were many edits that have been discarded.

In my current edits, I'm trying to find an optical balance between the details of the nebulae and the appearance of the stars, which was particularly difficult with this image.

Anyone who knows my work knows that I'm not a big fan of greatly reducing the stars, but sometimes you have to jump over your shadow to achieve what you want. I reduced the stars as much as my personal taste would allow so as not to drown out the delicate O3 structures.

WR 134 is one of the three stars observed by Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet in 1867. The two laid the foundation for this particular class of stars.

WR 134 is estimated to be 18 solar masses, with a diameter of about 10 solar diameters.
The O3 arc ionized by WR 134 expands at a speed of 10km/s.

WR 134 is in the Cygnus constellation and is attributed to the Cygnus OB3 association.

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RA (center)	20h10m23s.690
RA (top/left)	20h08m19s.167
RA (top/right)	20h07m37s.753
RA (bottom/right)	20h12m26s.435
RA (bottom/left)	20h13m11s.372

Dec (center)	+36°12′16″.10
Dec (top/left)	+36°45′38″.36
Dec (top/right)	+35°47′29″.22
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°38′46″.15
Dec (bottom/left)	+36°36′46″.16

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