Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B168  ·  Cocoon Nebula  ·  HD208362  ·  IC 5146  ·  LBN 424  ·  LDN 1055  ·  Sh2-125  ·  VdB147
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Cocoon Nebula, Frank Kane
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Cocoon Nebula

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Cocoon Nebula

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The Cocoon Nebula, shot in spite of hazy, humid skies filled with Saharan dust blown across the ocean into Florida! Despite two full nights of data, it was still pretty noisy.

The nebula itself is synthetic RGB from SHO filters (really, it's almost entirely Hydrogen, so HaRGB would likely work better.) Real RGB stars added back in, thanks to StarNet2. Lightly deconvolved Ha used as luminance for the nebula.

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Cocoon Nebula, Frank Kane