Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America nebula  ·  Pelican nebula  ·  The star 56Cyg  ·  The star 57Cyg
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QHY North America and Pelican, Kevin Morefield
QHY North America and Pelican
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QHY North America and Pelican

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QHY North America and Pelican, Kevin Morefield
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QHY North America and Pelican

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First light with my new mobile set up. In the Pacific Northwest summer nights and clear and short while winter nights are cloudy and long. Looking for a solution to maximize my time in the field, I added a QHY367c CMOS to my Takahashi FSQ106 and decided against guiding.

This provides a 1.9” image scale with a very large FOV. And with CMOS shorter exposures can still yield low noise images.

My Paramount MYT did a great job of tracking unguided on the 30 five minute subs. I used an 85 point T-Point model acquired during twilight.

The thirty subs were debayered into RGB and stacked in CCDstack. Finishing edits in Photoshop CC.

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QHY North America and Pelican, Kevin Morefield