The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane (Antoine Grelin)

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

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The Cocoon Nebula and its dark dust lane

Link: https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ic-5146-the-cocoon-nebula

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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Astrometry.net job	3687969
PixInsight job	Q56D7SB3ZQPROBXS4MGYR146O8FOGRSY
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h49m53s.94
RA (top/left)	21h54m26s.49
RA (top/right)	21h43m50s.98
RA (bottom/right)	21h45m32s.25
RA (bottom/left)	21h55m53s.87

Dec (center)	+47°26′17″.0
Dec (top/left)	+48°12′48″.3
Dec (top/right)	+47°47′36″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°39′38″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°03′42″.7

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