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.