• Description: - Messier 29, a small simple Open Cluster in the bright gassy and dusty gas clouds of the Cygnus region of the Milky Way

• Camera: ASI533MM with Chroma RGB & 3nmHa filters

• Telescope: Astro-Physics AP130EDT

• Exposure: 3hrs 50min of 3min R,G & B exposures plus 3hrs 40min of 10min Ha exposures

• Location: Home in Calgary, Alberta under bright city skies

• Imaging Date: 2025-07-29 and 2025-07-30

• Description: - This is a wide field view of Messier 29, aka NGC6913, an Open Cluster in Cygnus. It is the grouping of about 7 bright stars plus several smaller ones located in the middle left of the image. A nice little open cluster at 7.1 magnitude and 7.0 arc minutes in size. Estimated to be very young at 13My and close at 5.2kly (1.6 kpc) away. I imaged this in wide field to capture how it sits in the very Ha gas and dust rich region nead Sadr in Cygnus portion of our Milky Way. The brightness in the bottom right corner is from P.Cygnus which is just out of the frame.

• Camera: SBIG STT-8300M with Baader RGB filters

• Scope: Astro-Physics 92 Stowaway at 644mm focal length

• Exposure: 2hrs 10min total of 10 minutes each colour of Green, Blue and Red filters. Skies clouded over preventing further exposures.

• Location: near Cayley, Alberta under Bortle 4 skies (21.08mpsas towards target)

• Date: 2023-10-08

• Processed in PixInsight with RCAstro tools.

• Description: - In the middle right of the above image of the M29 Wide Field view, you can just make out a small planetary nebula red ring, highlighted in the above cropped image. This is known at Abell 69, PN A66 69, and PN G076.3+01.1, depending upon the catalogue. It is a miniature version, or rather same kind, as M57 The Ring Nebula.

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