IC5068 (Joe Matthews)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD198195 · HD198401 · HD198480 · HD198690 · HD198974 · HD199021 · HD199099 · HD199355 · HD199373 · HD199395 · HD199511 · HD199512 · HD199580 · HD199693 · HD200030 · IC 5068 · LBN 320 · LBN 324 · LBN 327 · LBN 328 · LBN 329 · LBN 332 · LBN 342 · LBN 348 · LBN 349 · LDN 914 · LDN 915

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I only had a few hours of clear sky at least according to Astrospheric, so I decided to try and image IC 5068. I chose the Optolong L-eNhance filter thinking it might be best filter to use vs the L-Ultimate given the sky conditions. Around 00:15, guiding failed due to incoming clouds, I looked outside trying to judge if I could continue, but again according to Astrospheric the clouds where here to stay the night, so I shutdown. However, about 45 min later the clouds were gone, but by that time I had already readied for sleep so I called it a night, as usual I found myself wishing I had a fully automated observatory.

IC5068 is a faint emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Dark dust falls across the cloud of ionized hydrogen making IC5068 an interesting target to image. IC5068 lies around 1,600 light-years away from Earth. IC5068 is close to the North American and Pelican nebulae, which I think give IC5068 its popularized name as the Forsaken Nebula..

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Astrometry.net job	8664475
PixInsight job	APY6IRK5W9C96U56HDLYSE8ICRPMX35N
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h51m36s.45
RA (top/left)	20h55m42s.10
RA (top/right)	20h42m43s.64
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m40s.50
RA (bottom/left)	21h00m20s.26

Dec (center)	+42°35′03″.6
Dec (top/left)	+44°03′49″.6
Dec (top/right)	+42°55′29″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°05′41″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°12′10″.1

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