Finally! Clear Night - No Moon - No Smoke! I had three wonderfully clear nights to capture photons all night!
This is the first project from that effort.
SH2-112 is a diffuse emission nebula located 5,600 light-years away in Cygnus.
I was quite surprised to see that there seems to be little known or written about this target. I had never heard of it before, so it was completely new to me, but it clearly is not as well known as other targets in Cygnus. I found a good grouping of images of this in Astrobin - which is where I stumbled on it in the first plave - using the "Explore Constellation" feature. It's a shame that there is not more background available on it - it's such an interesting and beautiful target!
I shot this as a narrowband image but was also able to capture some RGB subs so that I could replace the narrowband stars with true RGB stars.
Full details on the project, including a detailed step-by-step image processing walkthrough, can be seen on my website here:
https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/sh2-112Thanks for looking!
Clear Skies,
Pat
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