I remember signing off last year in spring with an Ha image of the pelican (IC 5070) that was just a couple of hours, so it seemed fitting to patiently wait for Cygnus to rise again this year.
This was captured in the very early hours of the 16th April, I've been holding out to add some more Ha or
perhaps even some elusive OIII but I don't think it's going to happen. Certainly the OIII may be pushing it with astro dark now gone. If opportunities arise I'll still try for some Ha stuff in nautical dark, but having a play with the Samyang. I'll see what later in the year looks like to do this justice.
In hindsight the framing looks a little off with the top of NGC7000 almost seemingly cropped off but I thought there was more of interest to grab underneath - not realising the overall composition may suffer!
It's fairly noisy in the weaker signal areas, but I find it hard to believe there's only ~1 hour per pane here (7x600s & 6x600s). It's such a bright object, there's just loads of signal.
Captured with Voyager, calibrated & stacked in APP and processed in PixInsight. I say processed, I didn't really do much!
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