Cygnus - the swan's head (Tom Gray)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: Crescent Nebula · IC 5068 · IC 5070 · NGC 6888 · Part of the constellation Cygnus (Cyg) · Pelican Nebula · The star 28Cyg · The star 30Cyg · The star 31Cyg · The star 32Cyg · The star 34Cyg · The star 55Cyg · The star 57Cyg · The star Deneb (αCyg) · The star Sadr (γCyg) · The star νCyg

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Cygnus - the swan's head

On the face of it, this image seems rather soft, although I think the focus was reasonable - with finger tip control and a home-made Bahtinov grating. I expect this is more to do with the severe under sampling (61"/px) from my DSI 2C OSC/28mm lens combo.

Nevertheless is serves to show the rich emission nebulae that dominate this region of the sky amidst the milky way backdrop. I took this at the same time as imaging IC 1050, the pelican nebula, through my SCT - just visible at the bottom of the frame.

Images were captured in Envisage, which supports multiple DSI cameras, aligned in Nebulosity and then processed in Startools. Quite a lot of healing was made to the stars to reduce and tighten these, although they still look quite blocky. I've imaged this region previously with my DSI3 pro / camera lens in Ha, so must consider adding some colour frames.

Camera Lens Astrophotography
Optolong L-eNhance filter
Altair Astro 183 M/C Hypercams
UK Astro-Imaging
The OSC Club (One Shot Camera)

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