Cocoon Nebula
Acquisition Details
- Date Posted: July 20, 2006
- Resolutions: 1024x740 , 1024x740 , 1024x740
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Description
Heres a wide field view of this large faint nebula in Cygnus surrounding star cluster IC 5146. It is located at the end of a large dark nebula through the heart of the Milky Way. This LRGB image was taken on August 4th and 5th 2005 from Forest Grove, OR using an ST-2000XM camera and a Televue Genesis SDF 100mm refractor on a Losmandy GM8/Gemini mount. The luminance image is a std. deviation mean combination of 30 two minute images. R, G, and B images were a combination of 9 images each of duration 4.5, 2, and 3 minutes. Combining was done using Ray Gralaks Sigma Pre-beta 11 program. Color combine and level and curve processing was done with Photoshop. The image was slightly cropped and reduced to 1024x740
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- Dave Sandage
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