Sh2-113 and Sh2-114: Two Flying Dragons in Cygnus (Göran Nilsson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 61 Cyg · 65 Cyg · 65 tau Cyg · 67 Cyg · 67 sig Cyg · HD201091 · HD201092 · HD201444 · HD201561 · HD201795 · HD202125 · HD202349 · HD202444 · HD202880 · HD202989 · HD203097 · HD203155 · HD203156 · HD203233 · HD203611 · HD203696 · HD203713 · LBN 316 · LBN 321 · LBN 333 · LBN 346 · LBN 347 · LDN 912 · PK083-08.1 · Piazzi's Flying Star (61 Cyg B) · And 6 more.

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Sh2-113 and Sh2-114: Two Flying Dragons in Cygnus

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This is Ha and Oiii caught with my dual-RASA rig using the very likable IDAS NBZ filters during monlight. I highly recommend this filter for an OSC. It is halo-free and the results are almost RGB like with a lot of star colour.

The best known object of these very faint structures is The Flying Dragon (Sh2-114) up to the left. However, it clearly have a quite similar companion to the right of it (Sh2-113). Then there is also a massive and relatively bright Ha area dominating the right half of the image, which is LBN 321. Not much Oiii signal to be seen in this area.

The Flying Dragon is quite difficult to catch, so f/2 and a dark site (mine is Bortle 2-3) helps.

I processed the image using the latest version of Star XTerminator and also a bit of the excellent Noise XTerminator.

"Nordish by nature"
Hydrogen and Oxygen Narrowband Only!
Cooled Color Cams
Sharpless2 Objects
Celestron RASA
ZWO ASI 2600MC PRO
CMOS Imagers
The OSC Club (One Shot Camera)

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RA (center)	21h15m11s.26
RA (top/left)	21h25m25s.44
RA (top/right)	21h07m28s.91
RA (bottom/right)	21h05m10s.19
RA (bottom/left)	21h22m34s.25

Dec (center)	+38°21′24″.8
Dec (top/left)	+39°09′18″.9
Dec (top/right)	+39°53′53″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+37°30′12″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+36°47′03″.9

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