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The Cocoon Nebula

The Cocoon Nebula

One of my favourite subjects. The field of view with this set up is 3.9 by 2.6 degrees which allowed me to nicely frame the dark nebula B 168.

IC 1546 – September 6, 2007
Constellation: Cygnus
Location: Cattle Point.
Optics: Borg 77EDII at f/4.3
Camera: Canon 20Da on Kenko SkyMemo.
Exposures: 101 light frames of 60 sec, ISO 800. 1 hr 41 min
Process: Calibrated with 25 dark frames and 25 flat frames in ImagesPlus. Combined using MinMax Excluded. Colour balance in Photoshop.