Sh2-115 in the Hubble Palette

Date image was taken: 7/16/2020

Image Title: Sh2-115 in the Hubble Palette

Image Description and Details : Sh2-115 dominates the centre and right half of the image, with round Sh2-116 at upper left. Both are members of the Sharpless catalogue of nebulae and lie in northern Cygnus, not far from the famous North America nebula. They lie about 7500 light years away. The main nebula, which shows blue in this image, is powered by the stars in the open cluster Berkely 90, which is slightly to the lower right of centre in this image.

Tekkies:
Sky-Watcher Esprit 150 f/7 refractor, QHY 16200-A camera, Optolong Ha, O3 and S2 filters, Paramount MX. Acquisition with TheSkyX unguided. Focus with Optec DirectSync motor and controller. Automation with CCDCommander. Equipment control with PrimaLuce Labs Eagle 3 Pro computer. All pre-processing and processing in PixInsight. Acquired from my SkyShed in Guelph. No Moon, average to above average transparency and average seeing. Data acquired July 14-16, 2020.

11x10m S2, 19x10m Ha, and 9x10m O3 (Total = 6hr00m)
Image scale 1.15 arcsec per pixel

 Copyright 2020: Ron Brecher (astrodoc.ca)