Sometime in the fall of 2005, I tried some wide-field long-exposure photography with my Nikon FE2 piggybacked on a C8 and probably using a 55 mm f/1.2 lens and ISO 400 or 800 speed Ektachrome or Fujichrome film.  The distortion at the edges is bad and the tracking wasn't clean, but it's one of the only photos I ever took with an unambiguous rendering of IC 1396 in Cepheus.  Although the details are smeared out owing to the poor tracking, the main outlines of the Milky Way are readily apparent, especially the large dust clouds where I placed the labels "Cygnus" and "Cepheus".  Unannotated image, Back to constellations

The above image was reprocessed to increase contrast and to highlight the regions where emission nebulae glow in red, the main ones of which are IC 1396 and NGC 7000, but that also can be faintly seen on the Cassiopeia border.

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