Pelican Nebula IC5070

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070) is an emitting nebula located about 2000 years from the earth.

It is very extensive in the sky, about 2.5 times the diameter of the Moon.

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH

(414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -15°C

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Filter: Optrolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 95x300s ( 8h ) at Gain:101 Offset:49

Dark-100x300s Flat-30 Bias-100

Date : Take on 5 night 05/24+30+31/2021 06/01+02/2021

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Drizzle x2

Crop the black bands from the stacking

 

-Processing-

_L Layer_

DBE

EZ_Deconvolution

EZ_Denoise

EZ_Soft Stretch

Unsharp Mask

 

_RGB Layer_

Linear Fit

Channel Combination

DBE

Background Neutralization

Photometric Color Calibration

SCNR (green 50%)

EZ_Soft Strech

 

_LRGB_

LRGB Combination

Curve Tranformation

Color Saturation

 

Clear skies !

Done