Here is the image I took at my recent trip to the Cherry Springs Star Party. It was also my first chance to use a new flattener/reducer I recently purchased for my SV115 scope. I'm quite happy with how it all worked out. You can see a lot more detail if you click the image to view a higher resolution version.
The nebulosity is IC 1318. Gamma Cygni (Sadr) is just outside the frame to the left (you can see a little bit of blueish reflection from it.) At the bottom left is part of the open cluster NGC 6910. The dark lane running through IC 1318 is LDN 889.
I can't even begin to describe how much easier it is to process an image taken at a site that has virtually no light pollution!!!
Image acquisition info here.
Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Fantastic Andy, you must feel like that image alone made the trip worthwhile- Maybe we should try to get a club group together next year-
Bruce D
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Simply fantastic! May I someday know the feeling of no light pollution!
Mike M.
Mike M.
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." - Anaxagoras
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Very very nice! Thanks for sharing your fine work, once again, I have a new screen saver!
Frank N
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"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be"
Taylor in "Planet of the Apes" 1968
Stellarvue 80mm APO, Skyguider Pro, Celestron AVX
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be"
Taylor in "Planet of the Apes" 1968
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Bruce, Mike, Bill, Frank, thanks for looking and thanks for the kind words.
Andy
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Beautiful, Andy. Maybe a quick report to the club on Cherry Springs?
Tom
Tom
Tom H
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Thanks, Tom. Check out this post .NGC7000 wrote:Beautiful, Andy. Maybe a quick report to the club on Cherry Springs?
Andy
Re: Gamma Cygni Nebulosity from Cherry Springs State Park
Simply extraordinary. Thanks for another spectacular desk top wallpaper.
Don
Don
"When I was 18, my father was the dumbest man I ever knew.
When I was 21, I could not believe how much he had learned in 3 years." --- Mark Twain
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When I was 21, I could not believe how much he had learned in 3 years." --- Mark Twain
Orion 120mm F/5 Refractor
Celestron 8
Explore Scientific 80 Triplet
Explore Scientific 102 Triplet
Orion 8" Astrograph