The Cygnus Wall Complex is part of the North America nebula. It contains the most concentrated star formation in the nebula.

This is a 2-part composition, shot with a Meade LX200 8" f/10 ACF telescope, Zwo ASI071MC Pro camera with Optolong L-eXtreme filter and a Optec Lepus 0.62X Standard reducer.

Space is vast and beautiful but so hard to comprehend.

In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force -The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1.

Six stars of the northern cross, in mourning for their sister's loss. In a final flash of glory, nevermore to grace the night

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Invisible

To telescopic eye

Infinity

The star that would not die

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like male anatomy

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did you just have it on a wedge? how do you poloar align it? Id love to try doing this with my 12" lx200

I have it as an OTA. My mount is a Ioptron CEM25EC with an Ioptron Ipolar camera in it. So polar alignment is the same as with an EQ-mount. The weight of the scope is around 50% of the payload of the mount, so that works fine.
The mount has optical encoders on RA and also because of that, I can do 600sec captures with tracking only :)

all who dare to cross her course are swallowed by a fearsome force

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