N.Am. Nebula Yucatan O[III]

N.Am. Nebula Yucatan O[III]: The North America Nebula is in the constellation Cygnus, with an area of more then four times the size of the full moon. This image is just a fraction of the nebula, an area of less then half a full moon. This is taken with the O[III] filter.

NGC: 7000
Right Ascension: 20h 57m 38s
Declination: 43d 26m 41s
Apparent Magnitude: 4, for the entire nebula

Date: June 2014
Equipment:
Telescope: Meade 16" Schmidt Cassegrain with f6.3 reducer
Camera: SBIG ST-10XE
Guiding: Meade 5" refractor; Starshoot Autoguider; PHD

Exposure: 16x10 min exposures with bin 2x2
Processing Notes: Data acquisition with CCDSoft. Reduction, and alignment, data selection and combination with CCDStack. Slight smoothing in dimmer areas and slight sharpening in the stars.
Scale: 1.06"/pixel

Links to images of this object on other sites:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000501.html

Additional Comments: This is my first time editing photos. Gayle

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