IC1318 The Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus (Mike Dobres)

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IC1318 The Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus

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IC1318 The Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus

Estimated at 2000-5000 lights years from Earth, lies this bright emission nebula. Its brightest part spanning 100 light years across, forms the wings of a butterfly, seperated by a dark dust lane its body and tail (a tailed butterfly?).

´Slightly closer´ at about 1800 light years is the supergiant star Gamma Cygni (Sadr), the center of the Northern Cross.

This is a full field, uncropped image with an ASI 294MC. Had to play with the rotaion of the camera to capture all of this in the FOV.

Revision B: HOO version using NarrowBand Normalisation in Pixinsight. Enhances the butterfly´s wings!
Revision C: Cleared up milkyness using Gradient HDR Compression process in Pixinsight.

APOD: 2013 July 9 - Supergiant Star Gamma Cygni (nasa.gov)
APOD: 2021 March 16 - IC 1318: The Butterfly Nebula in Gas and Dust (nasa.gov)
Pictures of IC 1318, Gamma Cygni Nebula - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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Description: Used ScreenStars and Narrowband Norrmalization in Pix to create a synthetic green channel to enchance OIII signal.

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RA (center)	20h25m32s.45
RA (top/left)	20h20m55s.57
RA (top/right)	20h30m28s.95
RA (bottom/right)	20h30m14s.90
RA (bottom/left)	20h20m31s.30

Dec (center)	+40°15′50″.2
Dec (top/left)	+39°35′16″.4
Dec (top/right)	+39°40′32″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°55′45″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°50′22″.2

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