NGC 6914 - Absorption, emission and reflection

[Avdhoeven]

In the constellation of Cygnus one can find NGC 6914. In this region emission nebulae, as well as absorption and reflection nebulae can be found. In the beginning of June I photographed this region, just like Tim Schuurman (a fellow astrophotographer). We shared our data and then I worked on this, but all still in low resolution. 

Now I reprocessed the data using the Drizzle option in pixinsight, blowing up the original to twice its size and then in the end reducing it back to the original size, while obtaining more fine detail.

Furthermore also Digitized Sky Survey was incorporated in the image to get more detail in the dark nebulae. Altogether I think it resulted in a nice image of this interesting region.

NGC 6914 Emission and reflection - DSS data included on Flickr

On the image also two interesting objects can be seen (see detail image): 

To the right we see V1515 Cyg, that's a star surrounded by a disk of gas/dust that can be well seen in the image. To the left we see the protoplanetary nebula GN 20.22.7

Telescopes: TMB92 / 20cm f/5 Newton / 1.2m Oschin Schmidt Telescope

Camera: QSI583ws / Canon 350Da

Exposures:

QSI583:

30x600s Red

30x600s Green

27x600s Blue

25x1200s Ha

Canon 350Da (cooled):

145 x 5 min ISO 800

Total: 35 hours

Credits: André van der Hoeven (astro-photo.nl) / Tim Schuurman (astrovirus.nl) / Space Telescope Science Institute

[toxic]

very Very nice indeed  

[laudropb]

Lovely images and very instructive. Thanks for sharing.