Imaging telescopes or lenses: GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 450Da
Mounts: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Viewfinder 8x50
Guiding cameras: Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc
Focal reducers: TS Coma corrector 2"
Software: PHD2 Guiding · DSS, Fitswork, Gimp
Dates:July 21, 2015
Frames:
10x300" ISO800
8x420" ISO800
5x600" ISO800
Integration: 2.6 hours
Flats: ~30
Bias: ~30
Avg. Moon age: 5.01 days
Avg. Moon phase: 25.78%
Temperature: 22.00
Astrometry.net job: 3115028
RA center: 20h 24' 59"
DEC center: +42° 25' 18"
Pixel scale: 1.176 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -57.042 degrees
Field radius: 0.829 degrees
Resolution: 4236x2784
Locations: Weißenbrunn/Altdorf, Altdorf, Bayern, Germany
I saw a lot of beautiful images of NGC6914 on Astrobin.
So I decided to try my luck on this colorful region.
And that is my result :-)
I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for watching !
Thomas
Object description:
NGC 6914 is a complex of emission and reflection clouds nearby to the IC 1318 region. The reflection clouds are catalogued separately as NGC 6914A (vdB131) and NGC 6914B (vdB 32), south and north respectively. The illuminating stars of the nebula belong to the Cygnus OB2 association. This massive grouping of young stars is arguably the most massive and extensive stellar association in the Milky Way. It contains about 2600 OB type spread across 200 light years of space. Its total gaseous mass is estimated to be several hundred thousand solar masses. The stars are mostly obscured by the extensive dust clouds of the Milky Way in that area known as the great rift.
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