IC5146 - Cocoon nebula
2013-10-11 
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A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and ionized gases. Nebulae are often star-forming regions, in where the formations of gas, dust and other materials clump together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become massive enough to form stars. The remaining materials are then believed to form planets, and other planetary system objects. ― source and more information wikipedia
Date: 2013-10-11
Location: Ekerö, Sweden
Temperature: 7 °C
Telescope: Skywatcher Equinox 80 APO
Camera: Canon 500D
ISO: 1600
Mount: Meade fork-mount
Exposure time: 24 X 60 sec
Reducer/flattener: William-Optics 0.8X reducer/flattener (P-FLAT-F6)
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Other info: Autoguided with 50mm scope and QHY5-II ontop of a Meade 12inch LX200 GPS.
Processing: Stacked and darks-subtracted in DeepSkyStacker. Processed in Photoshop CS6.