ASTRO: Region around NGC6914 Skywatcher ED80

Hi folks,

I had another gap in the clouds last night so I had a go at imaging the
region around NGC6914 in Cygnus. The whole of Cygnus is full of potential
targets and its difficult to choose and settle on a specific area.

Again I used my Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 with
Astronomik HAlpha and RGB filters. The H-alpha frame was a stack of 21x5min
exposures at 1x1 binning, and the RGB frames were stacks of 4x5min exposures
at 2x2 bin. All the images were autoguided using a Celestron Ultima 9.25 and
PHD Guiding. Processing was done in AstroArt 4.

I think the final image could do with more HAlpha signal and the blue frames
could do with some more exposure as well. Light clouds kept rolling through
so it was a bit difficut acquiring all the necessary frames. In the end the
clouds won!

Regards and clear skies.
David Cash

Great shot David. This area looks a bit like the flame nebula.

Stefan

"David Cash" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi folks,

I had another gap in the clouds last night so I had a go at imaging the
region around NGC6914 in Cygnus. The whole of Cygnus is full of potential
targets and its difficult to choose and settle on a specific area.

Again I used my Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 with
Astronomik HAlpha and RGB filters. The H-alpha frame was a stack of
21x5min exposures at 1x1 binning, and the RGB frames were stacks of 4x5min
exposures at 2x2 bin. All the images were autoguided using a Celestron
Ultima 9.25 and PHD Guiding. Processing was done in AstroArt 4.

I think the final image could do with more HAlpha signal and the blue
frames could do with some more exposure as well. Light clouds kept rolling
through so it was a bit difficut acquiring all the necessary frames. In
the end the clouds won!

Regards and clear skies.
David Cash

Hi Stefan,

Thanks very much for your kind comments.

Best wishes
Dave

"Stefan Lilge" wrote in message
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Great shot David. This area looks a bit like the flame nebula.

Stefan

"David Cash" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
Hi folks,

I had another gap in the clouds last night so I had a go at imaging the
region around NGC6914 in Cygnus. The whole of Cygnus is full of potential
targets and its difficult to choose and settle on a specific area.

Again I used my Skywatcher ED80 refractor, Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 with
Astronomik HAlpha and RGB filters. The H-alpha frame was a stack of
21x5min exposures at 1x1 binning, and the RGB frames were stacks of
4x5min exposures at 2x2 bin. All the images were autoguided using a
Celestron Ultima 9.25 and PHD Guiding. Processing was done in AstroArt 4.

I think the final image could do with more HAlpha signal and the blue
frames could do with some more exposure as well. Light clouds kept
rolling through so it was a bit difficut acquiring all the necessary
frames. In the end the clouds won!

Regards and clear skies.
David Cash