The constellations of Cygnus and Lyra in the northern summer Milky Way, shot from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 27, 2019. Dew intervened before I could shoot more frames or ones through the Softon filter. This is a stack of 3 x 3-minute exposures with the 35mm lens at f/2.8 and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600 on the Star Adventurer tracker.
Cygnus and Lyra, in a stack of 5 x 4 minute exposures with the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800 and 50mm Sigma lens at f/3.2. Plus two exposures taken thru the Kenko Softon filter for the star glows. Takes in the North America Nebula at top left and Gamma Cygni nebulosity left of centre. The Cygnus Starcloud is at centre. The Veil Nebula is at lower left. Deneb is at upper left, Vega at upper right. The Kepler field is at top, the area surveyed by the NASA Kepler exoplanet search satellite. Taken from home Sept, 29, 2013.
Nebulas in Cygnus with the dark Funnel Cloud Nebula (aka Le Gentil 3) at left north of bright Deneb. The field also contains the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and the complex of nebulas around Gamma Cygni at right, collectively known as IC 1318. To the right of the North America Nebula is the dark Northern Coal Sack. Some light cloud added the natural star glows. The 85mm RF lens is deadly sharp, and very clean to the corners even at f/1.4, with only minimal aberrations at the very corners. Made for portraits, this is a superb lens for deep-sky shooting. This is a stack of 5 x 60-second exposures with the premium Canon RF 85mm f/1.4 lens wide open at f/1.4 on the stock EOS R camera at ISO 400. Being a “normal” camera the EOS R records the red nebulas rather weakly, requiring boosting the reds in post to bring them out at all. The camera was on the Star Adventurer tracker.
