IC 1318 Gamma Cygni Nebula · 2021-03-24

A portion of the Gamma Cygni Nebula IC 1318 shown here below Gamma Cygni - the bright star at the top.

A portion of the Gamma Cygni Nebula IC 1318 shown here below Gamma Cygni - the bright star at the top. Gamma Cygni is located half way between us and the nebula. We are looking deep into the Orion Arm of our Galaxy in this direction and the nebula is more than 3000 light years from us.

A total of 7.75 hours exposure.

Exposure	31@900 sec
ISO	3200
Camera	Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504]
Optics	Skywatcher Esprit 120mm Refractor
Filter	Radian Triad Ultra Quad-Band Narrowband Filter
Guiding	Phd2 using a ZWO 224MC on an Orion 60x240mm Guide scope
Controller	Images taken using Kstars on an Odroid-N2 (Raspberry Pi clone)
Location	Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date	2021-03-24
PixInsight Processing	WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script Dynamic Crop Automatic Background Extractor MultiscaleLinearTransform HistogramTransform CurvesTransformation LocalHistogramEquilization
Further tweaking for colour in Lightroom