NGC6914 (Curtis Tsai)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD194220 · HD194260 · HD194708 · HD195089 · HD195100 · LBN 268 · LBN 270 · LBN 273 · LBN 274 · LBN 279 · LBN 280 · LBN 281 · LDN 897 · LDN 899 · LDN 900 · NGC 6914 · VdB131 · VdB132

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After years of haphazardly shooting DSOs, I chose NGC6914 as my July 2023 new moon target for the contrast between the blue reflection nebulae and the surrounding red emission nebulosity.

Since the SCA260 secondary mirror supports are at 45deg orientation from the RA and Dec axes, the star diffraction spikes are oriented 45deg from the edges of the frame.

The diffraction spike orientation didn't appeal to me, so in Revision B I cropped and rotated the original FOV to focus in on the blue reflection nebulae and use two bright star diffraction spikes as compositional elements. I lost a huge amount of the FOV so I didn't make Rev B the final version.

Going forward I have changed the camera orientation by 45deg on this to achieve "properly" oriented star diffraction spikes!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	8525365
PixInsight job	J01F8GX1RA9TP8FT37F2G2PHLFASTQML
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h25m21s.887
RA (top/left)	20h27m54s.899
RA (top/right)	20h28m05s.738
RA (bottom/right)	20h22m44s.890
RA (bottom/left)	20h22m42s.620

Dec (center)	+42°19′43″.84
Dec (top/left)	+41°31′43″.34
Dec (top/right)	+43°06′44″.43
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°07′35″.98
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°32′27″.93

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