Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B168  ·  Cocoon Nebula  ·  IC 5146  ·  LBN 424  ·  LDN 1030  ·  LDN 1031  ·  LDN 1035  ·  LDN 1040  ·  LDN 1042  ·  LDN 1045  ·  LDN 1047  ·  LDN 1055  ·  Sh2-125  ·  VdB147
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The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane

Acquisition details

RA center: 21h49m53s.94

DEC center: +47°2617.0

Pixel scale: 1.373 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -13.102 degrees

Field radius: 1.087 degrees

WCS transformation: thin plate spline

More info:Open 

Resolution: 4800x3095

File size: 13.4 MB

Data source: Traveller

Description

The Cocoon Nebula in true colors. IC 5146 is an emission/reflection nebula in Cygnus. This is 4 hours and 15 minutes of total integration time from a Bortle 3 zone. It turned out pretty well, especially considering the fact that the Newtonian telescope I am using suffers from crazy tilt right now so I had to crop a LOT of the image out. Without cropping, the full image looked more wide field and had much more of that dark dust lane

I was surprised while processing this that I did not have to increase the saturation at all. The colors were very bright right from the beginning and did not need any adjustments!

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The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin