It’s that time of year when Cygnus rises high over head and displays a multitude of nebulous treasure. This mosaic is only a portion of the Cygnus constellation but represents a large patch of sky almost 9 x 9 degrees. This is only a test framing as I create a game plan for a summer long imaging project. For a sense of scale, I have included a gibbous moon which was not part of the original image as well as a full scale crop of the Crescent Nebula, bottom right, to show the full size scale of the original 83 megapixel image.
The area around the Greene County Observing Site has seen a lot of new industry construction; most of it related to the Marcellus Shale boom. Take a look at the Google Map view of all the new light sources that weren’t there 3 years ago. About 70% are from the last year alone. #1 is one of the brightest lights seen in the above Southern Milky Way shot.
And to put it into a little broader perspective here’s a wider field view which starts to show the Heart Nebula.
Mount: AP900GTO3
Scope: Tak FSQ-106ED
CCD: Apogee Alta U16
Filters: Baader Ha, O[III], S[II]
MMOAG OAG w/ sbig st-i guider
Total Exposure 5 hours
I thought it would be fun to take an older image, reprocess it, and crop into smaller sections that would put a new spin on a very commonly imaged object. Hope you like them. I won’t reveal what the object is until later.
Playing around with a Stellarvue SVQ100 Astrograph with a Lumenera Lu070 monochrome video camera and a 5X Televue Powermate tonight. A quick stack and sharpen to see what I got. They need some more time processing but doesn’t look too bad for an astrograph.
