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SH2 101 • The Tulip Nebula

SH2 101 • The Tulip Nebula

Other Names: Tulip Nebula
Optics: Meade 10" ACF SCT at f/9.4
Mount: Paramount MX using The SkyX Pro
Camera: QSI 683WSG-8
Filters: Astrodon Ha 3nm, OIII 3nm, SII 3nm
Exposure: 2640 Mins or 44 hours, [23.67 Ha, 12.67 OIII, 7.67 SII], 1200s exposures, Binned 2x2
Accessories: Auto guided with Starlight Xpress Adaptive Optics, Starlight Xpress Lodestar & PHD2.
FLI Atlas focuser using FocusMax 4.1.0.72
Location: Burlington, ON, Canada
Date: Taken over several nights from July 3rd, to August 30th, 2017

Notes: data was acquired using TSX Pro and MaxPilote automation software.
Processing: Image calibration, & align in Maxim DL Pro. Levels, curves, cosmetic adjustments and crop/resize in Photoshop. Calibrated w/30 Darks, 500 Bias, 50 Flats of each filter using natural sky flats. CCD temperature was -20C & -25C depending on the night. Image was taken from my backyard Observatory.

Link to Ha Version: https://astromarina.zenfolio.com/p264248004/hc14bc7ef#hc14bc7ef

Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region[1] emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5.7×1016 km; 3.5×1016 mi) from Earth.
Sh2-101, at least in the field seen from earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes.