This image is of a star forming region in the area of the constellation, Cygnus.
Distance:3900 light years
Date:10/28/2004
Nikon D800 camera body on Explore Scientific 152-mm (6") f/8 refracting telescope. Images captured over a period of 2 hours, 55 minutes, from 00:57 CDT to 03:52 CDT Multiple frames for each image, stacked in RegiStar Exposures from ISO 100, 1/800 second to ISO 400, 1.6 seconds vProcessed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, sharpening, colour desaturation)