Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B355  ·  LBN 354  ·  LBN 356  ·  LBN 373  ·  LDN 935  ·  Sh2-117
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The Cygnus Wall, Roy Hagen
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The Cygnus Wall

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The Cygnus Wall, Roy Hagen
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The Cygnus Wall

Revision title: Still having great fun reprocessing old data📈🤩

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The Cygnus Wall.
a part of The North America Nebula AKA  NGC7000,  SH2-117
Taken over six nights from  August 27 to September 20 while testing out off axis guiding and the Covid virus. Well I hope to be finished with the virus for a while, but will continue testing the OA guiding and adjusting a minor camera sensor tilt.

Photons have the potential to live forever.
A photon can travel form the most distant parts of the universe, racing billions of lightyears without dying.
Then it suddenly smashes into a camera sensor somewhere on earth, dies while giving off energy, and creating a life after death in a digital cloud here on earth.
Well, these photons only had to travel about 2600 lightyears before they ran into my camera sensor and created a new life for themselves.
Since the discovery by William Herschel 1786 it it has been collected onto glassplates, film and digital camera sensors countless times, still looking like the North America Nebula who was named by a german astrophotographer, Max Wolf in 1890.
Light makes us warm and happy, creates energy, has the potential to prevent some mental and physical health problems, and inspires poets and songwriters.
So, if I was to suggest one favorite particle pf mine , it has to be the Photon.

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