First attempt...

I don't know how you all do it, but all the photos here are so nice

My first attempt. I realize it's not optimal. Shooting with the 70D and Sigma 30Art. This was from my balcony so there's a bit of light pollution too.

Anyway, I can't even begin to identify what's what, anyone here have a clue? It should be taken to the west and I'm based in Stockholm/Sweden. Shot last November.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/J6xU​kC

good job for the first work. Great expected potential talent.

I believe you captured Cygnus (the Swan) based on entering in parameters for a 30mm focal length and a Canon APS-C sensor. Your image also contains most of Lyra (the Harp).

The brighter star near the top middle of the image is Deneb. The even brighter star at the extreme right edge of the image is Vega.

Near the bottom of the image - right of the center is the star Albireo... it is actually two stars (Albireo is one of the more beautiful double-stars). When observed through a telescope, one star in the pair is very distinctly "blue" and the other is very distinctly "gold" so they provide a very beautiful (and obvious) color contrast when viewed at magnification through a telescope. In your image Albireo appears slightly reddish.

Since you don't have a modified DSLR sensor (modified for astrophotography by removing the UV/IR filter and replacing it with a filter that doesn't block Hα wavelengths so aggressively) the "North American" nebula is just left of Deneb. Your image also contains the Ring Nebula (a planetary nebula) located in Lyra, but again, the this is a very tiny object that normally requires a very long focal length to notice it (and having a modified astrophotography camera really helps.)

Incidentally, you can use something called the Blind Astronomy Solver (astronomy.net) to do "plate solving" on images and find out what part of the sky is in the image. I did not use plate solving... I looked at your image date & time and the fact that you were looking west (and into the band of the Milky Way). I set my planetarium software (Starry Night Pro Plus 7) to the same date & time, ran it to the "west", entered in a 30mm lens and Canon sensor to add in the "field of view" rectangle, and noticed that it exactly fit this section of sky.

You can upload images to the Blind Astronomy Solver (Astronometry.net) at this website: http://nova.astrometry​.net

They also have a Flickr "group" and if you share the image to that group, the software automatically plate-solves your image and then responds back (it's a robot post) to your image with the coordinates for your image and some other data about what's located there.

Help me out TC, where are you seeing Lyra ?? The summer triangle is just now appearing over Texas high up but not zenith til late late late . He said this was taken in the West so I can picture the Triangle low in West from here and I could see Lyra fairly well . But in this image I cannot make out Lyra .

Celestron wrote in post #18066122
Help me out TC, where are you seeing Lyra ?? The summer triangle is just now appearing over Texas high up but not zenith til late late late . He said this was taken in the West so I can picture the Triangle low in West from here and I could see Lyra fairly well . But in this image I cannot make out Lyra .

If you follow the link to the Flickr website you can see the shooting info... the image was taken last November.

I hate to annotate someone else's image without their permission, but I could draw the constellations lines to make it easier to see.

Celestron wrote in post #18066122
Help me out TC, where are you seeing Lyra ?? The summer triangle is just now appearing over Texas high up but not zenith til late late late . He said this was taken in the West so I can picture the Triangle low in West from here and I could see Lyra fairly well . But in this image I cannot make out Lyra .

from Stellarium, close to the same FOV .....

cheers
Dave

OK , thanks . I was at work today and I'm not allowed any planetarium programs on my computer so without my home computer I just could not make it out right off .

Celestron wrote in post #18066346
OK , thanks . I was at work today and I'm not allowed any planetarium programs on my computer so without my home computer I just could not make it out right off .

well that sux


Dave

That was a good idea (I suppose I could have done that with my planetarium software). Anyway, in Tobias' image the constellation is rotated just slightly (counterclockwise) and the camera angle is just slightly higher. It's just enough to cut the Dumbbell nebula out of the image, but the North America nebula is in his image (though we can't see it due to exposure duration and the camera isn't sensitive enough to Ha.)

Yeah it threw me off cause I was looking for Altair . Lyra is a favorite cause of the ring neb M57 being there and when some get a deep enough exposure there is that little spiral IC 1296 close by usually in the same image . Wish my scope was strong enough and I was in a dark enough place to see that in the EP !

TCampbell wrote in post #18066201
I hate to annotate someone else's image without their permission, but I could draw the constellations lines to make it easier to see.

I don't mind, if you can draw the constellations on my photo that would be great

I'm just getting in to this and all tips and help with indentification is welcome

Cheers!

Great shot!

tobahl wrote in post #18067464
I don't mind, if you can draw the constellations on my photo that would be great

I'm just getting in to this and all tips and help with indentification is welcome

Cheers!

Here' you go!

Thanks for all kind comments and help

Will go through this and check some maps

Cheers!

TCampbell wrote in post #18068017
Here' you go!

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maybe you didn't see my ID map further up the page ??