August 2023

Another month with few opportunities to do any observational astronomy, indeed I received just five images from one section member:

Steve Norrie used a medley of telescopes and cameras (a Celestron C8 SCT, a Redcat 51 and Redcat 71 plus  Starlight Xpress Trius 694 mono camera with narrow band filters giving the Hubble palette, and an Atair Astro 26C colour camera), to image NGC 7000 the North America Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus (two images), The Veil Nebula supernove remnant also in Cygnus, and IC 1396 the Elephants Trunk Nebula (two images) in Cepheus.

2023.08. NGC 7000_NorrieSD_
NGC 7000
2023.08. NGC7000_Norrie
NGC 7000

The above image is of just one section of the Cygnus Wall, the most concentrated site of new star formation in NGC 7000.  In the first image, the Cygnus wall is the part resembling the coast of Mexico down towards Panama.

2023.08. VeilCluster_Norrie
The Veil Nebula SNR
2023.08. IC1369_NorrieSD
IC 1396
2023.08. IC1396_Norrie
IC 1396

 

Dave Finnigan