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Pelican Nebula - IC 5070 - Hubble Palette

Imaging telescope or lens:Skywatcher Esprit 80 ED Triplet Super Apo

Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO

Mount:SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto

Guiding telescope or lens:Skywatcher Esprit 80 ED Triplet Super Apo

Guiding camera:Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc

Focal reducer:Skywatcher Field flattener for Esprit 80mm

Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Adobe PhotoShop CS5, FitsWork 4, DeepSky Stacker Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.4, PHD2 Guiding

Filters:Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm, Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm, Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm

Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm

Dates:July 1, 2018, July 2, 2018, July 3, 2018

Frames:

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 32x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 4x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 21x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 19x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 10.9 hours

Darks: 29

Flats: 27

Bias: 100

 

Object description (wikipedia.org) :

 

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name. The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust.

 

The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555. Millions of years from now this nebula might no longer be known as the Pelican, as the balance and placement of stars and gas will leave something that appears completely different.

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Uploaded on April 30, 2019
Taken on July 3, 2018