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Cherry Grove Observing Site, MN |
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North American Nebula This is a nice summer target that can be found in the constellation Cygnus, The Swan (also sometimes called the Northern Cross). It is part of an even larger complex of glowing gas nebulas, but this portion has a shape suggestive of a familiar continent. As is common with this type of object, it is rather hard to see directly. The strong red color is easily recorded on film, but large telescopes and special filters are needed to make it visible to human night vision. The myriad stars give away that this is a view into the band of the Milky Way. The bright star on the left, "62-Cygni (xi)", dominates this picture, but if you were to look at the sky, it would not be particularly noticable among the dozen even brighter stars in this constellation!
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