SBIG ST-4000XCM
1x900sec
Imager Temp -20C
APM/TMB 130/780
Field Flattener
Full Frame

ONE single 15 minute frame of this area. I thought it was going to be clear, but it didn't turn out. Wouldn't you know that if I was going to get only one frame, it would have at least 4 plane/satellite tracks in it.

Since I couldn't find a better description of this area, I took this verbatim from Rob Gendler's site:

"NGC 6914 is a complex of emission and reflection clouds nearby to the IC 1318 region. The reflection clouds are catalogued separately as NGC 6914A (vdB131) and NGC 6914B (vdB 32), south and north respectively. The illuminating stars of the nebula belong to the Cygnus OB2 association. This massive grouping of young stars is arguably the most massive and extensive stellar association in the Milky Way. It contains about 2600 OB type spread across 200 light years of space. Its total gaseous mass is estimated to be several hundred thousand solar masses. The stars are mostly obscured by the extensive dust clouds of the Milky Way in that area known as the great rift."

For those that don't know, IC 1318 is the Butterfly or Gamma Cygni nebula and it lies just one field SSE of this field.

July 19, 2009