Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B353  ·  HD199799  ·  HD200102  ·  LBN 378  ·  NGC 6996
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Hudson Bay Region within SH-2 117 - The North America Nebula, Doug Gray
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Hudson Bay Region within SH-2 117 - The North America Nebula

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Hudson Bay Region within SH-2 117 - The North America Nebula, Doug Gray
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Hudson Bay Region within SH-2 117 - The North America Nebula

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The North America nebula is certainly an apt name for this region of space, and the designation makes it easy to refer to parts of the nebula by their geographic counterparts. Normally folks refer to the Florida, Gulf of Mexico, or Baja California regions (aka the Cygnus Wall), but rarely do folks focus on the northern portion near what would be Hudson Bay. I noticed some unusual features in wider shots of this object and finally got a chance to take a closer look.

There seemed to be less fine grained detail in the OIII channel here, so I shot that in bin4. Lots of detail in SII, maybe more than in Ha. Roughly SHO palette. RGB stars.

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Hudson Bay Region within SH-2 117 - The North America Nebula, Doug Gray