Vega & Schedar - Stellar Photography

These are a couple of years old now but I noticed it has been a while since I posted anything. Took these on August 2015. Both were taken with a Nikon 3200 attached to a 6" Celestron Nextar 6SE. The first photograph is a stack of 19 x 10 second exposures of the star Schedar (α Cassiopeiæ) is a orange giant star about 230 light years away. It's 4-5 times more massive than the Sun and 42 times as big! (-Wiki-)

The second photograph is a single 15 second exposure of the star Vega (α Lyræ) only 25 light years away . It's just over 2 times the size of the Sun both in terms of mass and radius. Notably Vega was the North Polar Star about 12,000 years ago. (-Wiki-)

Deneb

Last night the clouds broke and the sky cleared. This 6 minute exposure shows the star Deneb prominently on the left side of the image as well as some nice red coloured nebulosity and the rest of Cygnus to the right. Taken with my Nikon D3200 60x 6sec ISO6400 exposures at 55mm stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Rawtherapee.