Clamshell Nebula (Sh2-119)

Image Description and Details : Sharpless 119, also known as the Clamshell Nebula, is a large complex of emission nebulosity in Cygnus, about 2 degrees east of the much more famous North America Nebula (NGC 7000).
It is located just around 68 Cygni, a quite bright star of magnitude 5 and one of the stars responsible for ionizing the surrounding gas.
Interestingly, there are several dark lanes and dark globules overlaying the nebula.
The area is part of the Milky Way and is populated by numerous stars.

This image is acquired with the Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in IC Astronomy Observatory, Oria, Spain.

Total integration time 360 minutes
SHO: 12 sub-frames of 600s with each filter.
Dataset Telescope Live.

Processing with PixInsight (using Autointegrate.js script from Jarmo Ruuth), StarXTerminator, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and NoiseXTerminator plug-ins.

Copyright: Jan Scheers