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The Cygnus constellation

Jeffrey Horne, Nashville, USA, June 2020 and August 2021

“Last year I wanted to take a wide shot of Cygnus, with long sub exposures (20 minutes each) to see what kind of faint nebulosity I could pick up. I was so delighted by what I saw that I decided to reframe it this year as a two-panel mosaic that would show the region’s entirety. This image is a combination of last year’s data with this

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