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Imaged from Beckwith Township, Ontario, Canada.
With an apparent visual magnitude of +2.23, Sadr (Gamma Cyg) is among the brighter stars visible in the night sky. This star is surrounded by a diffuse nebula called IC1318, or the Gamma Cygni region in the constellation of Cygnus.
Some distance estimates for Gamma Cyg place it at around 1,800 light-years while estimates for IC 1318 range from 2,000 to 5,000 light-years.
11 x 4 minute subs (44 minutes total integration); D7200; Nikon 500mm f/4G @ f/4; ISO 400.
Auto-guiding with Orion SSAG; on a Celestron AVX mount.
Shot in RAW; converted to TIFFs; stacked in DSS; processed in CS6 CC.
Two alternate processings of this Nebula appears below:
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Hank Vander Velde | 09-Jun-2017 23:29 | |