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2011 igor morin

Cygnus Wide Field

Traveling Wilbury Observatory

This wide field frame takes in a lot of the treasures within the constellation Cygnus. Centre stage is NGC7000 or the North American Nebula. Right beside this is the Pelican Nebula or IC 5070. Lower right corner is the bright star Gamma Cygni and it is surrounded by various bright nebulae.

Dark lanes also run thru this area of the sky. Intense clouds of stellar dust hiding the stars. Bright red areas are scattered throughout which is hydrogen, the most common element in the universe.

Pentax 67 ,Pentax smc 200mm f/4 ,Kodak Ektachrome E200
Exposure is 55 minutes at f/5.6. ST-4 auto guider on a Losmandy G11. Push 1.5 development by GPC Labworks. Processed by The Nightfly. Canoscan 9000f with SilverFast 8. full exif

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