Butterfly Nebula - Newer version shown here
The crescent nebula feature at the upper right can be seen in this full pixel sized crop here: Crescent Nebula Image, NGC 6888
Image by Dick Locke, Stack of 2 Photos 10/23/03, 17 minutes and 30 minutes
Wimberly, TX, at the Starry Nights Bed and Breakfast
(perfect astro weather that night, the STV was averaging less than 1 arc second corrections all night)
Takahashi FS-102 telescope, prime focus with reducer at 610mm focal length, f5.9
SBIG STV autoguider using Celestron ST-80 guidescope
Losmandy GM-11 mount
Kodak LE 400 film, OM1n camera
Negative Scan, Nikon Coolscan IV ED, Processed in Photoshop
Click to Sun 
to see the sunspot pix from this trip.
Gamma Cygni (Butterly Nebula) (4/01)
Starry Nights Astronomy Images October 2003 (Astrophotos)
Oct. 2003 Starry Nights Fixed Tripod Astronomy Pictures, Images
Copyright © 2003, Dick Locke. All Rights Reserved.
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