The Cygnus Loop

The Cygnus Loop is a cloud of heated ionized gas, oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen in the constellation Cygnus.

 

Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com

 

6 panel mosaic

 

Ha 109 x 900s

OIII 102 x 900s

 

Ha 294 x 600s

OIII 162 x 600s

 

128 hours 45 mins in total.

 

Equipment used:

 

Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3

 

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C

 

Image Scale: 2.08

 

Guiding: OAG

 

Filters: Astronomik Ha,OIII

 

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

 

Image Acquisition: Voyager

 

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

 

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

 

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC, StarXTerminator, StarNet v2, NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator

Done