The Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, a bright red emission and blue reflection nebula 4000 light years away in Cygnus, located at the end of a long dark nebula B168. This is a Mean combine stack of 5 x 12 minute exposures with the TMB 92mm apo refractor with Borg 0.85x flattener/reducer for f/4.8, and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII camera at ISO 800. Taken from home October 5, 2013.
IC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula in Cygnus, at the end of the dark nebula B168. This is a stack of 10 x 8-minute exposures with the Sky-Watcher 20cm Quattro astrographic Newtonian reflector at f/4 with its coma corrector, and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800. Taken from home on Oct. 14, 2015.
