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IC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula, near the Constellation Cygnus, Taken on September 5, 2010
7x5 minute exposures, dark subtracted for a total exposure time of 35 minutes at ISO 800
Equipment:
Hutech modified Canon T1i DSLR mounted at the focal plane of the telescope
Modified 200 mm Konus f5 Newtonian (1,000 mm fl) with Baader coma corrector
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Go To mount with Losmandy heavy duty tripod
80 mm Orion Shorty Guidescope with Starshooter autoguider
Processed with deepsky stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended
Found between Cygnus and Cassiopeia, this beautiful nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide, located some 4,000 light years away. Like other star forming regions, it stands out in red, glowing, hydrogen gas excited by young, hot stars. The dusty halo around the fringe of the nebula is a dark molecular cloud, which gives the surroundings a bit of a washed out appearance. In wide field exposures, you can see a dark dust lane running away from the nebula, which would be
towards the top of the image.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
