Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Cygnus, Alistair Symon
Cygnus
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This is an image of the nebulosity surrounding the constellation of Cygnus taken using H-alpha, red, green and blue filters. Major nebulae are the North America, Pelican, Butterfly, Crescent and Veil. It is a 6 image mosaic taken with a 135mm Rokinon camera lens and an ASI6200MM camera. Embedded within that are two other mosaics taken with an FSQ106 refractor and SBIG STXL-11002 camera. These additional mosaics give extra detail in the major nebulae. In total this was ~200 hours of data was collected and used to build the final image. A higher resolution version is available at the link above.

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Cygnus, Alistair Symon