LBN 227

Posted by dcrowson
on Thursday, June 7, 2018

LBN 227 is a large nebula that consists of nine DWB Ha regions including 29, 31, 32, 42, 45, 46, 50, 55 and 58. The catalog of various Ha regions located in the Cygnus X Region was published in 1969. The paper with catalog can be found here - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1969A%26A.....1..270D. Other objects include Barnard 342 and open cluster IC 1311. See the annotated image for exact locations.

Ha – 12x1800s – 360 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

480 minutes total exposure – 8 hours

Imaged from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri (a red zone) on July 31st and August 1st and 20th, 2015 with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

HaRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/27783154657/sizes/l

HaRGB Annotated - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/27783152527/sizes/l

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