SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Rod Pommier
Location of Photo:
Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA
Date/Time of photo:
2023-08-02 through 2023-11-16
Equipment:
PlaneWave CDK17 telescope on PlaneWave L500 mount, SBIG STL 11000M CCD camera with Baader Planetarium Ha, R,G, and B filters.
Description:
Sh2-96 is an extremely faint emission nebula in Cygnus. It is known as The Scarlet Letter Nebula and just like the letter in the novel "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the letter in this nebula is a scarlet capital A. The brighter portion of the capital A is also designated as Lynds Bright Nebula (LBN) 066. Exposure times were 18.5 hours of hydrogen-alpha data and 2.75 hours of RGB data for a total exposure time of 21 hours, 15 minutes.
