NGC 6914

Reflection nebula in Cygnus

The blue of this reflection nebula contrasts beautifully with the red of the surrounding nebula.

 
 

 

Optics Celestron 80ED @ f/4.7, guided with an 8" LX200 Classic @ f/5.9
Mount LX200
Camera Starlight Xpress MX7-C
Filter IDAS LPR light pollution filter
Exposure 4 hours over two nights @ 8 min. subs
Processing Acquired in AstroArt3, Deconvolution, DDP. , final work in Photoshop7
Date 07-26-05 and 7-29-05
Location Elk Grove, CA
Notes Seeing and transparency average.  LPR filter worked well, but I still think that I could use a more sensitive camera.  The image possibly a little undersampled @ 4.69 Arc/p.