NGC6914, VdB131 and VdB132 - Fire and Ice (John Dziuba)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD194007 · HD194220 · HD194260 · HD194708 · HD195033 · HD229145 · HD229170 · HD229188 · HD229265 · HD229279 · LBN 268 · LBN 270 · LBN 273 · LBN 274 · LBN 279 · LBN 280 · LBN 281 · LBN 292 · LDN 897 · LDN 899 · LDN 900 · NGC 6914 · VdB131 · VdB132

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NGC6914, VdB131 and VdB132 - Fire and Ice

This is an HaRGB image of the area around NGC6914 which lies roughly 6,000 light years away from us in the Cygnus constellation. In the center of the frame lies a complex of reflection nebulae. These beautiful glowing gas clouds are illuminated by light from powerful, hot blue stars. These reflection nebulae are contrasted by the red emission glow of ionized hydrogen and also by dark, dense cosmic clouds.

I captured this image over about a three week period. I only imaged while the moon was below the horizon so that I could maximize the resolution of the fine detail in cores of the reflection nebulae. There was some nasty tilt present in the imaging train that I fixed during a site visit at the observatory. But, that fix was after the bulk of the data had already been captured so I added on some five min RGB exposures to capture the star data that I ultimately used.

It has been great fun so far using my remote rig which allows me to capture targets I would never be able to from my light polluted home sky.

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RA (center)	20h24m28s.163
RA (top/left)	20h27m16s.117
RA (top/right)	20h27m20s.884
RA (bottom/right)	20h21m36s.108
RA (bottom/left)	20h21m39s.370

Dec (center)	+42°27′43″.24
Dec (top/left)	+41°45′17″.75
Dec (top/right)	+43°09′46″.74
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°09′53″.22
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°45′24″.80

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