Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) - An SHO Closeup (The Heavens Declare)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 5070 · Pelican Nebula

Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) - An SHO Closeup, The Heavens Declare

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Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) - An SHO Closeup

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Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) - An SHO Closeup

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After lugging my entire telescope setup from inside my house out to my front yard in suburbia on 13 different nights from August - November 2023, I came away with a 41+ hour SHO close-up of the Pelican Nebula (IC 5067). Not a light lift, but I think it's worth it!

What you see here is not the "true" color of this nebula, but is what is called a false color image. The SHO palette (made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope) maps 3 narrow band passes of light to Red, Green, and Blue. Sulfur is mapped to Red, Hydrogen Alpha is mapped to Green, and Oxygen III is mapped to Blue. Not only does this make for a pretty photo, but it allows us to see the composition of a deep sky object and resole fine details in that object we might otherwise lose with normal RGB imaging. Another fun aspect of these SHO images are the violet/magenta stars (again, not a "true" color representation).

So the next time you see a Hubble photo or any other space photo that looks something like this, know that while it is not a "true" color representation, in some ways it gives us a clearer picture of the composition and details of that object. That was the goal of this project, and I think I resolved some very nice, fine details in the final image.

Hope you enjoy, and thank you for looking!

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