LDN 974

Posted by dcrowson
on Sunday, August 28, 2022
Lynds Dark Nebula 974 consists of most of the large nebula in this image.

NGC 7062 (Collinder 434), near the bottom left, appears to be a trumpler class III 1 p open cluster located approximately 4,800 light-years away in Cygnus.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on August 22nd, 2022 at the Danville Conservation Area (New Florence, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52306959320/sizes/l/

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