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29-MAY-2012

TULIP NEBULA and Cygnus X1

The Tulip Nebula, or Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus.
It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically.
It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years from Earth.
The Tulip nebula, at least in the field seen from earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1,(arrowed)
Which is site of one of the first suspected black holes.
Cygnus X-1 is the brighter of the two stars. (WIKI)

Imaged with Boren-Simon 10" F/2.8 POWERNEWT Astrograph.
SBIG ST8300M camera with FW5 filterwheel and BAADER LRGB filters.

L = 75 minutes
RGB = 10 minutes each (BIN 2x2)
Total of 105 minutes.
NO HYDROGEN ALPHA!

Imaged from the NEGEV desert in ISRAEL

SBIG ST-8300 CCD Camera

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