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Cygnus

The constellation of Cygnus (The Swan) contains many large deep sky objects including NGC7000 (the North America Nebula), IC5070 (the Pelican nebula), IC1318 (Gamma Cygni Nebulosity), and NGC6960, NGC6979, NGC6992 and NGC6995 collectively known as the Veil Nebula  
 

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This image was a bit of fun using an old Zuiko 28mm f/2.8 lens (at f/5.6) with my ST2000 CCD camera. Exposures through LRGB and Ha filters totalling 2 hours were combined for the colour image.

It is interesting to compare how 2 hours under a light polluted sky compares with 20 minutes (below) under a pristine sky.

 

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Date/Location: Mt. Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands (elev. 7700ft) / October 2003  
Equipment: Vixen GP Photoguider mount / Zuiko 50mm F1.8 lens @ F4  
Camera/Exposure: Olympus OM1 35mm camera / E200 slide film / 1 x 20 min exposure  
Processing: Scanned with Minolta D'Image Scan Duall II @ 2700dpi, post processed with Photoshop 7  
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