Inchworm Cluster

The Inchworm Cluster (NGC 6910) is in the constellation Cygnus. It is not visible to the naked eye.  Cygnus is the swan flying down the Milky Way toward Aquila the eagle.

The cluster is in the center of the frame below. Around Cygnus in the Milky Way is a lot of red glow from hydrogen gas. I was hoping to capture some of the red glow. But it may have been a little cloudy or I’ve reached the limits of my simplified techniques.

In Cygnus

North (toward Polaris) is up in the photo. The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color camera) on a TEC 140 telescope in the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3).

The 12 best of 14 90-second sub-frames were used and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = 18 minute photo. Unguided, binned 2X2 in the SkyX (to make smaller files for internet transfer), no calibration frames. Processed in Photoshop (CS5).

Location in the night sky of the photo:

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