I mentioned in a previous post that I still had some unprocessed images from last Summer.  Honestly, I still haven’t had a chance to do much with them, but here is one example, a wide field shot of the center of the constellation Cygnus.  This was captured with a Canon 6D full-frame DSLR, with an 85mm f/1.8 lens.  It consists of just 8 frames of 30 seconds each (at ISO 6400).  The camera was modified for Hydrogen-alpha sensitivity, which is why we can see an abundance of red.  The brown regions are primarily dust and the grey is just a whole lot of stars (this is in the middle of the Milky Way band).

More such wide field, quick capture images are yet to be processed, including some with this lens and others taken with a 24mm f/1.4 lens.

Here is an annotated version identifying the more common objects in the frame:

There are also many less well known objects included, but what really interests me in such images is that I can see what appears to be very interesting regions that I’ve never heard of and which don’t show up in my planetarium software!  In the future, I hope to photograph some of these regions at higher magnification to get more detail.