Pelican SHO (Duane Melvin)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · B349 · HD198896 · HD198931 · HD199069 · HD199098 · HD199137 · HD199138 · HD199178 · HD199206 · HD199312 · HD199417 · HD199479 · IC 5070 · LBN 334 · LBN 338 · LBN 341 · LBN 343 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · LDN 933 · LDN 936 · NGC 6989 · NGC 6997 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56 Cyg · The star 57 Cyg

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Pelican SHO

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Pelican SHO

I wanted to do an intense Hubble Palette image so here it is!

20 x 180Sec SII
31 x 90Sec Ha
25 x 185Sec OIII

Main camera QHY294m Pro 4/3 sensor - unlocked 47 megapixels cooled to -10C

all filters - Antlia 3nM 2-inch dia mounted - Starizona single magnetic tray

100ED Esprit main scope 100 x 550
Guidescope Orion 80 x 300 with Starshoot TM on ST4 direct to mount
EQ6RPRO mount

Syncaninit setup
Exact NCP alignment by QHY Polemaster system
Synscan hand controller - one-star alignment

SVBony wrap heaters

APT image capture
Deep Sky Stacker
Pixinsight
PS
Lightroom
Processed using Dell Alienware I7

Pelican nebula talk:
The emission nebula IC5070 named Pelican is 1800 light years from Earth and is much studied because it 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.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7337601
PixInsight job	MXQA3W6GYG38EO4HF6554H7M9HZC66PL
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h51m02s.523
RA (top/left)	20h53m13s.823
RA (top/right)	20h44m24s.676
RA (bottom/right)	20h48m55s.678
RA (bottom/left)	20h57m41s.495

Dec (center)	+44°24′34″.57
Dec (top/left)	+45°31′52″.87
Dec (top/right)	+44°19′39″.74
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°17′04″.60
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°28′02″.63

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