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2010/08/17 D.M.Conrad

Barnard 168 Cocoon

Sedro-Woolley, Wa.

Image Center about RA: 21h41m35.87s DE:+47°14'27.7" Fiels of view about 3 X 5 degrees.
Celestial north is up and east is left.
Barnard 168 is the long dust cloud extending from the Cocoon Nebula on the left towards the center of the picture.
The matter in the eastern end of the dust clout spawned the stars that generated the Cocoon Nebula. This cloud is some 3 to 4 thousand light years away.
The vast number of stars in the milky way are what enable us to see this cloud of dust and gas in the constillation Cygnus.

Hutech Canon 40D,Mini Borg 50 with 0.85 reducer (7885)
10 X 10min. exposures and stacked with Nebulosity.
Aligned and stacked with Nebulosity. Final processing with Canon DPP
Older Mountain Instruments MI-250 tangent arm mount.
Borg 77Ach guide scope with an Orion Starshoot autoguider using PHD guiding full exif


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