Gamma Cygni Nebulae IC1318A (Terry Hancock)

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Gamma Cygni Nebulae IC1318A

Acquired from my amateur backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan May 29 2014 and June 20th 2015 using a QHY11 Monochrome CCD/Takahashi E-180

Using narrowband filters and captured over 2 nights but a season apart, H-Alpha which is mapped to Green, SII mapped to Red and OIII mapped to Blue channel to form a Hubble Palette view of The Gamma Cygni Nebulae covering 4.1 x 2.67 degrees of sky.

Total Integration Time 5.16 hours

Prominent in this image is the sub-region Gamma Cygni Nebula IC1318A and part of the larger formation known as the Gamma Cygni Region (IC1318, or the Sadr Region). Just to the left of centre is open cluster IC1311.

Gamma Cygni/Sadr (upper right corner), the namesake star of the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. Very young for a star, a 12 million year old Supergiant and extremely bright. At a distance of 1,800 light-years, this young star easily outshines the vast majority of stars that are very close to the earth. In the study and classification of stars, Gamma Cygni served as an invaluable point of reference in contrast to other stars, allowing early astrophysicists the ability to develop an understanding of stellar evolution and a codified system of classifying all stars.

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Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI

Date of Shoot: May 29 2014, June 20th, 2015

H-Alpha 110 min, 11 x 10 min bin 1x1

OIII 100 min,10 x 10 min 1x1

SII 90 min, 10 x 10 min 1x1

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Date of Shoot: May 29 2014, June 20th, 2015

H-Alpha 110 min, 11 x 10 min bin 1x1

OIII 100 min,10 x 10 min 1x1

SII 90 min, 10 x 10 min 1x1

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