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The North America & Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus (400 mm lens), Michael Watson
The North America & Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus (400 mm lens)
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The North America & Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus (400 mm lens)

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Photographed at Torrance Barrens Dark-Sky Preserve, near Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada

(190 km by road north of Toronto)

* Temperature 12 degrees C.

* Photographed while I was observing the Perseid meteor shower

Total exposure time: 24 minutes.

These are two of the most photographed and celebrated red hydrogen gas clouds in the sky, in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy as it passes through the northern constellation Cygnus (the Swan).

For a description of these nebulae, and another view of this same region made with the same 400 mm lens on July 26, click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/20012353576/

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Nikkor AF-S 80 - 400 mm f/5.68G ED VR lens on Nikon D810a camera body, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount with a Kirk Enterprises ball head

Twelve stacked frames; each frame:

400 mm focal length; ISO 6400; 2 minutes exposure at f/7.1

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

Stacked in RegiStar;

Processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, levels, colour balance, sharpening)

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The North America & Pelican Nebulae in Cygnus (400 mm lens), Michael Watson