Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  28 Cyg  ·  28 b02 Cyg  ·  LBN 182  ·  LBN 187  ·  NGC 6883  ·  The star b2 Cyg
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WR134 and NGC 6883, Roy Hagen
WR134 and NGC 6883, Roy Hagen

WR134 and NGC 6883

Revision title: Reprocessed with The BlurXterminator and SPCC

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
WR134 and NGC 6883, Roy Hagen
WR134 and NGC 6883, Roy Hagen

WR134 and NGC 6883

Revision title: Reprocessed with The BlurXterminator and SPCC

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Description

Two different  objects in this image.
The open cluster NGC 6883 and the Shell Nebula, a ring nebula around the Wolf Rayet star WR134, lying around 6000 lightyears away from my front yard
The area in the image is located just south of Sadr, in the backbone of the constellation Cygnus.

Fascinating how fast the technology is evolving. When I was a kid stargazing with my first  telescopes, mowed by hand.
In the nineties I buildt a 250mm Newtonian telescope with 12V motors in both axis, tried deep sky imaging with Kodak and Fuji film, guiding manually and freezing my butt off for an hour worth of more or less nothing.
My camera a Minolta STR101 SLR froze at -20°C and so did I.
I sat out there in the cold, dark winter nights staring into a 9mm eyepiece with an illuminated reticle, pushing buttons on a "DIY" wired hand control.
Now I can stay warm in my living room, even sleep through the acquisition process, and get ours of usable data.

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WR134 and NGC 6883, Roy Hagen