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Gamma Cygni Region Mosaic H-Alpha, Terry Hancock

Gamma Cygni Region Mosaic H-Alpha

Gamma Cygni Region Mosaic H-Alpha, Terry Hancock

Gamma Cygni Region Mosaic H-Alpha

Description

A reprocess of Data from last season, original image here

www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/14404284214/in/set-721...

Seen here the Gamma Cygni/Sadr Region, named after the central star Sadr/Gamma Cygni the central star of Cygnus's Cross surrounded by diffuse emission and dark nebulae and part of the much larger Cygnus Molecular Cloud.

This mosaic consists of 5 panels, all data was captured from my backyard observatory in Fremont Michigan late May early June 2014 except for the Crescent in April 2014 (and the inset data of the Crescent Nebula from 2012) Equipment used a QHY11 Monochrome CCD/Takahashi E-180

Total Integration/exposure time 10.5 hours

Equipment

QHY11S monochrome CCD cooled to -20C

Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph

Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition Maxim DL

Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack

Registration of images in Registar

Post Processing Photoshop CS5

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Gamma Cygni Region Mosaic H-Alpha, Terry Hancock