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This stunning combination
            of both blue and yellow reflection, and pink emission nebulosity
            has few rivals in the fall sky. This field was very carefully
            chosen to include the nebulous open cluster at the upper right
            Dolidze 8 which is surrounded by NGC6914a, and the two main blue
            nebulas below which are NGC6914b in the center, and NGC6914 to
            its left. The background field is awash with an enormous amount
            of unnamed hydrogen nebulosity which I was able to bring out
            with some additional Halpha exposures.

            
Notice that there
            are some yellow reflection nebulas in this image. That color
            for a reflection nebula is quite uncommon in the sky, and warrants
            special attention in this region. Also, few if any other bright
            reflection nebulosites are present in Cygnus, this being one
            of the best.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Mount:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: Meade DSI Pro  w/Lumicon Newt Easy Guider
Exposure:  LRGB = 120:40:40:40 
AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11
Location:  Payson, Arizona, Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 6 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  60F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL:  Calibration, deblooming (Starizona Debloomer), aligning, stacking
Gralaks Sigma:  Stacking
PixInsight:  Curves, Deconvolution
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Cleanup

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