North American Nebula and friends in Cygnus

[jjosefsen]

 

I have started to dabble a little in some widefield, on my until now fairly unused Star Adventurer.

 

North eastern part of the constellation Cygnus.

In the center of the image is the North American and Pelican Nebulas, with their vast clouds of hydrogen gas.

Towards the right side we see the bright star Sadr and surrounding Hydrogen regions glowing various shades of Red and amber.

Through out the image are hints of brown, indicating vast amounts of dust floating in space.

At the very bottom of the image, just visible in the frame is the Veil Nebula with its red and blue-green flowing filaments.

Canon Eos 1300D (modified)
Canon 50mm 1.8
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i

2h 16m exposure time.

 

 

Annotated:

[Rallemikken]

1 hour ago, jjosefsen said:

2h 16m exposure time.

Nice picture, and very well defined stars! How long did you expose each sub? Did you keep the f all open? Planning on piggybacking my trusted Canon cameras on my HEQ5 and try something similar. The lens I'll be using is a 40mm f/2.8

[jjosefsen]

12 hours ago, Rallemikken said:

Nice picture, and very well defined stars! How long did you expose each sub? Did you keep the f all open? Planning on piggybacking my trusted Canon cameras on my HEQ5 and try something similar. The lens I'll be using is a 40mm f/2.8

This was 120s exposures through a astronomik cls clip-in filter.

The little cheap canon 50mm needs to be stopped down a little.

I believe this was shot at either f3.2 or f4. 

Edited December 4, 2022 by jjosefsen