Derby and District Astronomical Society

IC 1318

Emission Nebula in Cygnus      RA 20h 22m 12s  Dec +40d 15m 00s

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IC 1318 is a vast region of emission nebulosity excited by hot young stars and separated by dark lanes of dust. From our vantage point it is centered on the star Sadr (Gamma Cygni). Adrian Brown produced the following picture of the nebulosity which comprises a total of eighteen 15 minute exposures captured over the nights of the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of July 2006. It was imaged through a 6nm Astronomik Hydrogen Alpha filter via an ATK16HR CCD camera and a Sky-watcher 80ED refractor at f/7.5. A Celestron CGE mount was used throughout, auto-guided via the program GuideDog and a Skywatcher 80T refractor and ATK-2HS CCD camera. Image acquisition and stacking was done in Maxim DL 4.53. Post processing was performed in Adobe Photoshop and consisted of Levels and Curves, a high pass filter to sharpen the image and selective use of the Gaussian Blur filter to smooth the background noise.

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