IC 1369 and Environment

This area in Cygnus is often overlooked because of its prominent neighborhood: NGC 7000, the North American Nebula, is located immediately to the southwest, just outside the field of this photograph. Besides a lot of nicely-colored stars of the Milky Way, there are some perceivable deep-sky objects in this area:

Barnard 361 is the large dark nebula located to the left of the image's center.
IC 1369 is a galactic star cluster with a size of 5' and a magnitude of 8.8, located above and slighty to the right of B361. Its distance to earth is given as 6,700 light years.
LDN 974/966/963/960/959: This chain of dark nebula extends from IC 1369 southwest, the highest contrast has small LDN 963 just right of the image's center.
Sh1-89 = PK 089.8-00.6, a planetary nebula which has a core diameter of about 0.5', a small red double-spot above and slighty to the left of B361.

The Milky Way in Cygnus, zoom lens photograph.

Exposure Data

Instrument: 4.9" f/3.8 Wright-Newtonian
F/stop: 3.8
Exposure: 4 x 20 min
Camera: QHY8pro
Offset/Gain/Temp: 116 / 20% / -20°C
Date: August 16, 2010
Exposure start: 1:10 MESZ
Location: Ebenwaldhöhe, Lower Austria
Conditions: Visual limiting magnitude 6.3 mag, SQM-L sky brightness 21.3 mag/arcsec², seeing ?, temperature 12°C, moderate wind, low humidity
Autoguider: Meade Pictor 216 XT, max. error: 1" (RA) / 1" (Dec);
Enhancement: Basic data reduction, combine, logarithmic curves, color correction, noise filtering, star size reduction

IC 1369 and Environment (Barnard 361, Sh1-89, LDN 959/960/963/966/974)