Milky Way Through Northern Cygnus
The Milky Way passing throughCygnus contains two bright red hydrogen clouds known as the North American Nebula (NGC 7000) and the Butterfly Nebula (IC 1318). The bright star is Deneb one of the most intrinsically bright stars known.
Technical Details
- Object: Milky Way Through Northern Cygnus
- Date/Time: 2012 Jun 16 at 10:22 UTC
- Location: Bifrost Astronomical Observatory, Portal, AZ
- Mount: Losmandy G-11 German Equatorial Mount
- Lens: Nikkor AI 85mm f/2.8
- Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i)
- Field of View: 14.9° x 10.0° at 10.4 arc-sec/pixel (web version: 58 arc-sec/pixel)
- Exposure: 2 x 240s, f/2.8, ISO 800 and 120s, f/2.8, ISO 800 with Cokin A830 Diffusion Filter
- File Name: MilkyWay12-515w.jpg
- Processing (Adobe Camera Raw): Vignetting Correction, Noise Reduction, White Balance, Curves
- Processing (Photoshop CS5): Average Images, Curves, opacity (with diffusion image)
- Original Image Size: 3454 × 5179 pixels (17.9 MP); 11.5" x 17.3" @ 300 dpi
- Rights: Copyright 2012 by Fred Espenak. All Rights Reserved. See: Image Licensing.