SH2-114 Flying Dragon

[lostone]

Sh2-114 The Flying Dragon:
Please enjoy this seldom captured image. Comments are always welcome (Good & Bad) Constructive is always good.

As of lately this has been the hardest and most difficult target that I have captured and just as difficult to process. Sh2-114 is a very faint nebula located in the Cygnus Constellation.
This target took me over 2 weeks of imaging, acuminating over 36 hours of data with 27.5 hours being useable. When it comes around next year I plan on acquiring at least another 30 hours of data. Maybe I'll try getting either 900s or 1200s to try and get more detail.

Sh2-114 is a complex and unusual HII emission nebula. Its complex, wispy structure is likely the result of winds from hot, massive stars interacting with the magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. But very little is known about it. The image was generated with observations in the Hydrogen alpha [Ha] (red), Oxygen [OIII] (blue) Sulfur [SII] Green filters. Although there is little to no OIII in the nebula I decided to use it anyway.

Scope used was my Explorer Scientific 152CF with Nitecrawler WR35
Camera was ASI 2600MM, ZWO Filter Wheel w/ Antlia Pro 3nm filters
Ha: 57@600"
OIII: 48@600"
SII: 62@600"
Avg. Moon age: 10.03 days
Avg. Moon phase: 37.63%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00

More Tech into at Astobin
https://www.astrobin.com/u5q6up/

[MariusD69]

Wonderful! Well done! I captured this one last month (5 hours Ha and 4 hours OSC). For this target I think the best approach is Ha +RGB. OIII and SII didn't have enough signal.

[Juno16]

Awesome image!

Wow, good for you! I barely get 36 hours of clear sky per year!

Very nice capture!

[messier 111]

superb image , well done , thx .

[ic_1101]

Excellent capture of the Dragon!

[Makuser]

Hi Mark. This is a great SH2-114 (Flying Dragon) image. On the astrobin site it is just electrifying. Amazing nebulosity color and details in your 36 hour capture. Thanks for sharing this with us Mark and warrants an APOD nomination for sure.

[John Donne]

Very nice work !

[Gmetric]

Wow, the colours really add to the dragonesque feel of the image, it's a faint one for sure, and your 37hrs have really paid off with this incredible image.

[STEVE333]

Fascinating image with unusual colors. Looks like you have an HOS image. The golden tints make it look like a creature out of Star Trek! Beautifully done.

Steve

[Gordon]

Congratulations Mark on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!

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[lostone]

Wonderful! Well done! I captured this one last month (5 hours Ha and 4 hours OSC). For this target I think the best approach is Ha +RGB. OIII and SII didn't have enough signal.

I will defiantly be putting more time on this target when It comes back around. I have found very little info on this target and even had a hard time finding out where it actually was. Sometimes that can be a pain and sometime it adds to the challenge. Once I got the coordinates, It took me a couple of hours trying to get it framed, even at 10min test exposure it was difficult to frame. Had to play it by ear and try to place the stars where I wanted them.

Gotta love the challenging targets.

[lostone]

Congratulations Mark on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!

app.php/article/11-2-2021-tss-astrophot ... of-the-day

Thanks a bunch, This is been the most challenging target I have attempted to do so far. There are more, but need to work on the 11" to get it going properly.

[John Donne]

APOD
YESS !

[Ylem]

Wow! That's amazing!!
And congratulations on the APOD!