Sterrenland Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) I managed about an hour and a half under a beautiful starry sky last night...before some clouds appeared and curtailed the session. Was guiding around 0.4...a shame I couldn't manage a few more shots. I decided to concentrate on the area just below Sadr in Cygnus (well, depending on which direction you're flying to Sadr from, it could actually be left of, right of or above!). I don't think this region actually has a name other than it's part of the Cygnus Molecular Complex including the various LBN/LDN references within the field of view. It's certainly a 'busy' area of sky with dark nebulae, bright nebulae and amazing tendrils of dust sculpted and pulled out into space. It's also not an easy area to process as you try to balance the dark dust, the light illuminated banks of the bright nebulae and the extremes of contrast. I think leaving Sadr out of the frame was a wise move. I would like to come back to this area for a longer session with darker skies. Edited June 23, 2022 by Sterrenland New image 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Beautiful image. Such a rich area of the sky. I'm tempted to break out my wide-field rig. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonyme Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 15 hours ago, Sterrenland said: I managed about an hour and a half under a beautiful starry sky last night...before some clouds appeared and curtailed the session. Was guiding around 0.4...a shame I couldn't manage a few more shots. I decided to concentrate on the area just below Sadr in Cygnus (well, depending on which direction you're flying to Sadr from, it could actually be left of, right of or above!). I don't think this region actually has a name other than it's part of the Cygnus Molecular Complex including the various LBN/LDN references within the field of view. It's certainly a 'busy' area of sky with dark nebulae, bright nebulae and amazing tendrils of dust sculpted and pulled out into space. It's also not an easy area to process as you try to balance the dark dust, the light illuminated banks of the bright nebulae and the extremes of contrast. I think leaving Sadr out of the frame was a wise move. I would like to come back to this area for a longer session with darker skies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonyme Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Apologies for the double click! Nice image and very interesting as always. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterrenland Posted June 24, 2022 Author Share Posted June 24, 2022 Just now, Sonyme said: Apologies for the double click! Nice image and very interesting as always. Gary Thanks...fascinating part of the sky, but quite a difficult region to process. Hope to come back to it in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmack1 Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Thats a really nice image. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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