Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) In SHO narrowband (mlewis)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · IC 5070 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg

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Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) In SHO narrowband

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Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) In SHO narrowband

Link: https://www.thinairphotography.com/Astrophotography-Portfolio/Nebulae/i-69PKvtT/A

A revisit to this iconic object, this time with more exposure time to capture all the channels and be able to produce a color result. A supposed intermediate processing run to check the color mix was supposed to speed up the ultimate processing, but turned into a problem instead when I was unable to duplicate that pleasing color mix when I came back to process the entire data set. A number of hours later I was finally back to a result that was fairly close to the initial version.

Being currently constrained to a 4" refractor during 'galaxy season' caused me to have to look for other targets that are not currently optimally placed in the sky. This object was rising around 2 AM, and so I was only able to get slightly more than 3 hours a night when conditions were good. Nevertheless, I eventually built up a sizable data set. Additionally, this is the first target I have captured where I purposefully took larger amounts of data in the 2 NB wavelengths (OIII and SII) that have weaker signal levels than the Hα signal. This did seem to help the noise levels of those channels more closely approach the results achieved on the Hα stack.

This was mixed using small tweaks to a straight SHO channel combination.

Note: Data was also collected on the 18th, 20th, and 21st of April, 2021.

This nebula is part of a larger region of nebulosity that includes the brighter North America Nebula (off this frame to the left and above).

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RA (center)	20h51m16s.56
RA (top/left)	20h56m09s.45
RA (top/right)	20h52m44s.75
RA (bottom/right)	20h46m18s.33
RA (bottom/left)	20h49m51s.34

Dec (center)	+44°01′10″.3
Dec (top/left)	+43°27′58″.4
Dec (top/right)	+45°01′32″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+44°33′35″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°00′42″.9

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