IC1311 Region in Cygnus

It is pretty late in the season for Cygnus. I had taken this data back in early October. Well here it is finally. There is s little trouble with the reducer causing odd corner stars.

A full size image and exposure / processing details are at:

http://jthommes.com/Astro/IC1311.htm
(be sure to click on the image for full size)

WO Megrez II 80 mm APO at f/4.3
Artemis 285
G11/Gemini
guiding - C8 at 1350 mm FL, DSI Pro, K3CCDTools
HA:R:G:B >> 64:16:16:16 minutes

I've never shot this area. Very nice. It's good to see you made it through the fires.

Tom

That looks pretty good to me, Jim! Ditto on making it through the fires! You think October data is bad? I have quite a bit of backlog (I just started processing some data from September)!

Eric

Nice one Jim! There sure is a lot of interesting "stuff" in that image.

Beautiful shot Jim!
Lovely detail & colors! 8)

Thank you!

Thanks for the comments guys.

Tom and Eric,
It is interesting that you mentioned the fires.., I went out about 7 days after the worst of it. (Actually one was still burning /smoldering/ when I went out.) The sky was reasonably clear, but someone told me that a little ash and a little dew could ruin optics. Seems somewhat extreme - can dust and dew be a problem as well?