Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B168  ·  Cocoon nebula  ·  IC 5146  ·  PGC 167590  ·  PGC 167593  ·  Sh2-125  ·  VdB147
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IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula, lowenthalm
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IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula

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IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula, lowenthalm
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IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula

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I combined two 10 minute captures for a total of 20 minutes integration time. Good seeing and transparency under a dark sky helped show a lot of detail along with the subtle brownish dust clouds obscuring stars around the nebula. You can see the dust cloud stain the stars yellow next to the unobstructed background stars at the upper right and somewhat less obviously at the, upper left and lower left corners of the image. The dust tail seen in larger fields of view heads out out of the image at the lower right.

White balance is fairly decent, I think. Notice those two little edge on galaxies at upper left too!

This is actually a combination of 3s x 201 frames + 5s + 119 frames.

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IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula, lowenthalm

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