IC 5146 AKA Cocoon Nebula, Const: Cygnus, Type: Bright Nebula, Mag: 10.0, Size: 20.0'x10.0'

• 2003-July-26 and 2003-July-30 - HX916 image of IC 5146 (~f/4.6, Meade LX10 OTA on G11, an LRGB composite of 120:25:25:25 minutes of exposure (12x10 min L unbinned from Anza on 03Jul30, 5x5 min RGBs binned 2x2 from LBV on 03Jul26), STV guided, dark frames applied. Processing: AIP (dark calibration, stacking), MaxIm (contrast stretch of luminance), AIP (color registration, color balanced using G2V, then Black Sky), PaintShop (LLRGB layering with one round of Unsharp Masking on Luminance for final L layering).
  
• 2002-July-09 - HX916 image of IC 5146 (f/3, Meade LX10, 20 minute total exposure [a stack of 10 2 minute images], STV guided, binned 2x2, from OCA's Anza site [seeing 8, transparency variable 4-8, tracking 1.8X, 1.1Y @ 2.0 sec]). Processing: AIP (flat and dark calibration (darks and flats from July 6th), stacking), MaxIm (DDP, contrast and brightness adjustment).
  
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 5146 for comparison.