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Gamma Cygni Region

Gamma Cygni Region



Bright supergiant star Gamma Cygni near image center lies in the foreground of the complex gas and dust clouds and crowded star fields. Left of Gamma Cygni, shaped like two luminous wings divided by a long dark dust lane is IC 1318, whose popular name is understandably the Butterfly Nebula. The more compact, bright nebula at the lower right is NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula. Some distance estimates for Gamma Cygni place it at around 750 light-years while estimates for IC 1318 and NGC 6888 range from 2,000 to 5,000 light-years.

This two-panel mosaic represents a region of about 6°x3° of the Northern summer Milkyway. North is up in this deep exposed combination of Ha and LRGB data.

The Ha version of this image can be seen here.

[from Daniel's APOD on October 27th 2009]

Date: 10/08/2017

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Image Data

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106EDX III
Mount: ASA DDM85
Detector: Apogee CG16M
Filters: Astrodon Gen 2, 3nm/5nm Narrowband
Exposures: HaLRGB 1600:480:200:200:200min
Observatory: ROSA, France

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