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Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) - HaLRGB

RA: 20h 51m 18.52s, Dec: +44° 15′ 51.8″

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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 nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a foreground molecular cloud filled with dark dust. Both are part of the larger H II region of Westerhout 40.

 

The Pelican 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.

 

Source: Wikipedia.

 

OTA: Dreamscope 16" f/3.7 astrograph (SkyPi, Pie Town, NM, US)

Camera: ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro

Pixel Size: 3.76 x 3.76 micron

Image Scale (1x1): x arcsec/pixel

FOV: 1.37° x 0.92°

Mount: Paramount ME

Guiding: Unknown

 

Imaging data: ATEO-1 at SkyPi, Pie Town, NM USA

Available from the Starbase website starbase.insightobservatory.com/inventory

 

Subs (19/05/20 - 22/09/20):

12 x 600 sec RED (bin x1)

13 x 600 sec GREEN (bin x1)

20 x 600 sec BLUE (bin x1)

10 x 600 sec LUMINANCE (bin x1)

28 x 600 sec Ha (bin x1) mapped to RED channel

 

Integration: 13 hrs 50 min

 

Alignment, integration & initial image processing (channel combination, background removal, RC-Astro toolkit, non-linear stretch): PixInsight

 

Post-processing & finishing: Adobe Photoshop, Corel PSP2019 & Adobe Lightroom

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Uploaded on January 31, 2024
Taken on September 22, 2020