North American and Pelican Nebulas (Alex Ranous)

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I shot this pair as a two panel mosaic a couple years ago, but it was fairly tight framing and some interesting bits got lopped off. I did a four panel mosaic this year and put my rotator to good use to get a bit more interesting framing.

I also decided to try and incorporate some data from a closeup on the Pelican into that panel. This was somewhat a pain as PI wanted to use one of the closeup subs as the reference image. I normally run all the panels through PI and use the keyword feature to group the subs for the different panels, but when you do that, you don't have the ability to manually select the reference frame, so I was forced to process just that panel separately so I could manually select a panel from the properly oriented subs. The question is, was it worth it. While the area that detailed data covered was a bit smoother, the data is fairly bright so all the extra integration time didn't really buy me much. I won't bother doing this again unless the region I'm supplementing is dim and would benefit from a lot more integration time.

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RA (center)	20h54m43s.47
RA (top/left)	20h57m36s.57
RA (top/right)	20h41m12s.93
RA (bottom/right)	20h52m03s.62
RA (bottom/left)	21h08m26s.73

Dec (center)	+43°51′43″.10
Dec (top/left)	+46°18′41″.5
Dec (top/right)	+43°19′45″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°24′27″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°17′33″.3

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