Atik 428ex, CZJ Flektogon 20/2.8 mm

Red=SII, Green=Ha, Blue=OIII

10x300"

The Cygnus Wall is a prominent, bright ridge within the North America Nebula (NGC 7000), located in the constellation Cygnus. It is a region of active star formation, characterized by a high concentration of newly formed stars. The Cygnus Wall is approximately 20 light-years long and is a part of the larger North America Nebula, which itself resembles the shape of the continent

I've finished my two-year long quest to make a satisfying image of the Cygnus Loop. This is the result of 23.5 hours of imaging over 11 nights in July and August. It took that long to get 11 clear nights! This image is 4.15 degrees wide, which is more than eight full moons.

It was an image of the eastern arc (on the left) that inspired me as a boy to a lifelong love of astronomy. The photographer, W. C. Miller, worked at Palomar Observatory and is considered (at least by me) to be the father of modern aesthetic astrophotography. He pioneered the use of color film to capture the beauty of the heavens, as well as to provide imagery of scientific value. I have a print of his image of the eastern arc hanging in my mancave, and it has inspired me to this three year long quest for my own image of this incredibly beautiful and complex object.

The Cygnus Loop is a supernova remnant, the shattered remains of a star that exploded perhaps some 8000 years ago. It's less than 2000 light years away, and so the intricate details of its shock waves can be clearly seen and studied. It is expanding at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. At that speed, the differences in position and structure are apparent over the time span of decades.

Scientific interests aside, the Cygnus Loop is one of the most beautiful objects in our sky. I'm quite happy with this result. I wish you could see it at its full resolution of 7253x7253 pixels!

Cisne do Pescoço Negro

Distribuição: Sul do Brasil e Chile, é também encontrado no Uruguai, Paraguai, Argentina, Terra do Fogo e Ilhas Malvinas.

Alimentação: Plantas aquáticas, sementes, insetos e moluscos

Habitat: Áreas alagadas extensas

Excelentes pais é comum os filhotes subirem nas costas dos adultos quando há perigo.

Cygnus with a lot of eggs :)

Here is the Cygnus Loop shot using the Rokinon 135mm F/2.0 lens.

Rokinon 135mm Lens Review: astrobackyard.com/rokinon-135mm-f2-astrophotography/

The image was processed to view the image as a whole. The veil nebula complex is clearly overexposed when when up-close, but I wanted a dramatic look at the entire structure from a glance.

Those stars have been minimized like crazy as well. I wanted to create as much separation between the nebula in the background sky as possible!

As you can tell, I chose to frame in NGC 6940 in there as well, a star cluster I have never shot before.

I'm loving the creative shots this lens provides:)

About 2 hours in RGB (2-minute exposures @ ISO 800 using the Optolong L-Pro filter)

Another 2 hours in H-Alpha (3-minute exposures @ ISO 1600 using the Astronomik 12nm Ha clip-in filter)

Canon EOS Rebel T3i (modified)

Rokinon 135mm F/2.0 ED UMC Lens

iOptron SkyGuider Pro

Le Cygnus NG-15 au bout du Canadarm. Grâce au bras robotique, on va le désamarrer puis étendre le bras, et le relâcher à environ 10 mètres de la Station, il va ensuite voler de ses propres ailes (enfin disons avec son propre système de propulsion). Les vaisseaux cargo Cygnus 🇺🇸 et HTV 🇯🇵 sont amarrés et désamarrés de l’ISS manuellement, à l’aide du bras robotique. C’est une façon élégante et sûre d’opérer à proximité d’une station spatiale, mais les véhicules les plus récents, ainsi que ceux du futur (notamment pour la station Gateway autour de la lune) implémentent un arrimage automatique basé sur des capteurs GPS et optiques

The Cygnus NG-15 locked and loaded onto the Canadarm. Tonight we send this beautiful spacecraft on her way... We will close the hatch to Cygnus and detach the spacecraft, extend the arm with the spacecraft on it to 10 m from the International Space Station... and release. Cygnus will spread its wings (figuratively) and depart on its own power. The US commercial Cygnus and Japanese HTV are the last types of cargo spacecraft that arrive and leave with the help of the robotic arm. An elegant and safe way of arriving at a space station but this method is being phased out because you need a robotic arm operator and a robotic arm to catch it, so for the most recent vehicles like SpaceX’s cargo Dragon or for the next station we will be building around the Moon – the Gateway – the spacecraft are being designed to dock on their own using GPS and optical navigation. 😎

Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet

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Perhaps spring is coming. Although there are still much snow in forests, in our courtyard and other shadowy places, these fields are free of snow.

Yes, i needed to see how it works :d

The rich star field at the heart of the Cygnus constellation. Featuring the bright star Deneb, with the stunning North America Nebula close by (NGC 7000) + many more deep sky wonders. The dark dusty area is known as the Northern Coalsack.

The Cygnus constellation and the Cygnus Rift, my first tracked shot.

Night was awfully windy so most of the shots were slightly blurred, expecially for exposures over 2 minutes...I need to buy a sturdier tripod :D

Single shot with Canon 700d and Sigma 17-50mm at 17mm, 2 minutes, f3.5, ISO1600.

Emission nebulas in northern and central Cygnus, including the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) at lower left and the Gamma Cygni complex (IC 1318) at upper right. Deneb is the bright star at left, while Gamma Cygni itself is at upper right.

However, the image works well turned 90° to portrait with Deneb at top.

This is a stack of 8 x 2-minute exposures with the 200mm lens at f/2.8, and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600, taken from home on May 30, 2017 as part of testing the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. All exposures tracked but not guided.

Practicing a Cygnus capture ahead of our Orbital launch and rendezvous next week

Credits: ESA/NASA

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Mute swan, river teviot. Hawick, roxburghshire, scotland.

Cygnus Region feat. Deneb and NGC 7000 nebula

Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello

Test image with Helios 58mm + Canon EOS 4000D, 40x30sec@3200 ISO on Omegon MiniTrack LX2 (Mosaic)

Pollino National Park, Piano Visitone 1400m (SQM 21.7) - Italy

River Harbourne (Bow Creek) South Hams Devon.

In celebration of Love your Pet day.

I've had many pets throughout the years but when Pete died a few years ago I wasn't ready to find a new companion and instead I find friends everywhere. This Mute Swan came over to me when I stepped close to the edge of the wharf.

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Cygnus atratus

Erin Park, Castrop-Rauxel

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Astro-Tech AT66ED

Imaging Cameras

QHYCCD QHY163C · QHYCCD QHY163M

Mounts

Meade LX70

Filters

Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2" · Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2"

Accessories

Astro-Tech .8x Reducer/Field Flattener · OnStep Telescope Mount Goto Controller · Rigel Systems Stepper motor

Software

Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)

Acquisition details

Frames:

Astronomik H-alpha CCD 12nm 2": 121×120″(4h 2′)

Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 100×120″(3h 20′)

Integration:

7h 22′

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 7870472

RA center: 20h14m47s.5

DEC center: +41°34′15″

Pixel scale: 2.352 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 180.508 degrees

Field radius: 1.854 degrees

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Resolution: 4599x3324

File size: 18.4 MB

Data source: Backyard

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Aujourd’hui c’est un grand jour à bord de l’ISS : un peu comme un matin de Noël, on est tous très excités par l’arrivée du cargo NG-16. Il a fallu bien plus qu’un traineau pour nous apporter le Cygnus le plus lourd jamais envoyé vers l’ISS ! Lancé par une fusée Antarès, il transporte plus de 3 700 kg de ravitaillement et d’expériences scientifiques. Il nous poursuit depuis 2 jours, durant lesquels on s’est occupé de préparer sa capture et son arrivée. Megan et moi l’avons attrapé à l’aide d’un bras robotique de 17 m de long, piloté depuis une station avec vue panoramique sur la Terre… parfois mêmes les films de science-fiction n’ont pas un scénario aussi ambitieux ! On est toujours tellement concentrés que parfois j’ai besoin de faire un pas en arrière pour me rappeler à quel point ce qu’on fait ici sort de l’ordinaire, et combien d’efforts et de gens talentueux ça mobilise 👏

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Today was a great day on the International Space Station: just like Christmas, we are excited to open our latest delivery 🎅 It took more than Santa’s reindeer to get the heaviest ever Cygnus cargo ship up here though. Launched atop atop a two-stage Antares rocket, and carrying more than 3,700 kg of cargo, this spacecraft spent two days chasing down our orbital outpost before Megan and I brought it in using a 17-m robotic arm piloted from a panoramic window overlooking Earth. Even science fiction film scenarios are not that bold sometimes!!! I often have to take a step back to realise just how unbelievable what we do up here is, and how much effort and talent so many brilliant colleagues put in for days like today to happen 👏

Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet

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Cygnus dê Lacus.

Model: Camila Folch.

Cygnus columbianus,

Merced National Wildlife Refuge,

Merced Co., California

These CYGNUS Corp. fast vehicles are used on all kind of lands, being able to pass almost every thing. The arctic version of the MACHETTE shown here is equipped with a sonic boomer, perfect to create avalanches, and a frost cannon turning surrounding humidity into high speed ice bullets.

This is my 50th CYGNUS Corp. vehicle. I achieved a personal goal doing 50 different vehicles based on the same cockpit box (thanks to Peter Morris). I'm not going to stop making new ones but I feel like I can try something else now, maybe microspace. ^^.

Whooper Swan, juvenile

Laulujoutsen, syyskuun ehdokas

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Cygnus buccinator. Arundel Wetland Centre.

The Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant measuring approximately 6 moons across in diameter. It’s age is relatively young on a cosmic scale of only 21,000 years. Photographed from my backyard.✨

Camera: ASI071MC-Pro

Telescope: Celestron RASA 8

Aperture: f2.0

Mount: Celestron CGX

Filter: RASA 8 LPS

Frames: 62X30sec

Gain: 90 Offset: 20

OAT: 15°C

Camera Temp: -10°C

Guiding: ASI385MC

Bias: 50 frames

Darks: 50 frames

Post Processing: Pixinsight, PS, LR

Processed by: Helicon Filter;

Mute Swan from Oslo, Norway

A beautiful Black Swan. The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.

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Cisne negro / Black swan

Scientific classification

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Anseriformes

Family:Anatidae

Subfamily:Anserinae

Tribe:Cygnini

Genus:Cygnus

Species:C. atratus

Reserva de Flora y Fauna Dr. Rodolfo Talice (Trinidad, Flores,Uruguay)

Aujourd’hui c’est un grand jour à bord de l’ISS : un peu comme un matin de Noël, on est tous très excités par l’arrivée du cargo NG-16. Il a fallu bien plus qu’un traineau pour nous apporter le Cygnus le plus lourd jamais envoyé vers l’ISS ! Lancé par une fusée Antarès, il transporte plus de 3 700 kg de ravitaillement et d’expériences scientifiques. Il nous poursuit depuis 2 jours, durant lesquels on s’est occupé de préparer sa capture et son arrivée. Megan et moi l’avons attrapé à l’aide d’un bras robotique de 17 m de long, piloté depuis une station avec vue panoramique sur la Terre… parfois mêmes les films de science-fiction n’ont pas un scénario aussi ambitieux ! On est toujours tellement concentrés que parfois j’ai besoin de faire un pas en arrière pour me rappeler à quel point ce qu’on fait ici sort de l’ordinaire, et combien d’efforts et de gens talentueux ça mobilise 👏

🚀 📦🎉

Today was a great day on the International Space Station: just like Christmas, we are excited to open our latest delivery 🎅 It took more than Santa’s reindeer to get the heaviest ever Cygnus cargo ship up here though. Launched atop atop a two-stage Antares rocket, and carrying more than 3,700 kg of cargo, this spacecraft spent two days chasing down our orbital outpost before Megan and I brought it in using a 17-m robotic arm piloted from a panoramic window overlooking Earth. Even science fiction film scenarios are not that bold sometimes!!! I often have to take a step back to realise just how unbelievable what we do up here is, and how much effort and talent so many brilliant colleagues put in for days like today to happen 👏

Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet

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