IC5146

“Cocoon Nebula”

Constellation- Cygnus

Right Ascension: 21h 53m 40s

Declination: 47° 17' 36"

Distance: light years

Visual Brightness: 7.2 mag

Apparent Dimension: 12 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- August 7, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- LRGB, L = x seconds binned 2x2, RGB = x seconds each binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in AstroArt 2.0