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The whole North America Nebula complex in one frame: NGC 7000, the Pelican, and IC 5068. Four panels, 92 hours of Hα and RGB over 22 nights from Starfront Observatory in Texas. Full write-up:
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The North America Nebula Complex Alt title: A Continent in Cygnus
About 2,600 light-years away in Cygnus, a single cloud of glowing hydrogen well over a hundred light-years across wears three different names: the North America Nebula, the Pelican Nebula, and the…
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September 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The whole North America Nebula complex in one frame: NGC 7000, the Pelican, and IC 5068. Four panels, 92 hours of Hα and RGB over 22 nights from Starfront Observatory in Texas. Full write-up:
www.phillipsastro.com/the-north-am...
www.phillipsastro.com/the-north-am...
LDN 939 in Cygnus - a dark nebula you can only see because of what it hides. 36 hrs of narrowband. The little blue disc near center may or may not be a planetary nebula; astronomers still argue.
Full write-up: www.phillipsastro.com/shadow-play-...
#astrophotography
Full write-up: www.phillipsastro.com/shadow-play-...
#astrophotography
Shadow Play in Cygnus — LDN 939
Dark nebulae are the only objects in astrophotography you image by what they hide. LDN 939 is a cold cloud of molecular dust drifting through one of the busiest neighborhoods in the northern sky, and…
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August 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
LDN 939 in Cygnus - a dark nebula you can only see because of what it hides. 36 hrs of narrowband. The little blue disc near center may or may not be a planetary nebula; astronomers still argue.
Full write-up: www.phillipsastro.com/shadow-play-...
#astrophotography
Full write-up: www.phillipsastro.com/shadow-play-...
#astrophotography
The Squid Nebula (OU4) — a 50 light-year outflow so faint it wasn't discovered until 2011, by an amateur. 40 of this image's 57 hours went to OIII alone.
Full write-up: phillipsastro.com/the-squid-and-the-flying-bat/
🔭 RedCat 91 · ASI2600MM · Bortle 2, Texas
Full write-up: phillipsastro.com/the-squid-and-the-flying-bat/
🔭 RedCat 91 · ASI2600MM · Bortle 2, Texas
August 9, 2026 at 5:15 AM
The Squid Nebula (OU4) — a 50 light-year outflow so faint it wasn't discovered until 2011, by an amateur. 40 of this image's 57 hours went to OIII alone.
Full write-up: phillipsastro.com/the-squid-and-the-flying-bat/
🔭 RedCat 91 · ASI2600MM · Bortle 2, Texas
Full write-up: phillipsastro.com/the-squid-and-the-flying-bat/
🔭 RedCat 91 · ASI2600MM · Bortle 2, Texas
Explore the Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443):
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July 11, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Explore the Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443):
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