Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  62 Cyg  ·  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6989  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula  ·  Pelican Nebula  ·  The star 56 Cyg  ·  The star 57 Cyg  ·  The star ξ Cyg
HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!, Kharan
HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!
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HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!

HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!, Kharan
HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!
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HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!

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After two months of clouds, the sky finally parted on xmas eve's eve. There was as a slight haze, but I took 13 hours of usable footage in total while enjoying some mulled wine.

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). The shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico.

The North America Nebula covers a region more than ten times the area of the full moon, but its surface brightness is low, so normally it cannot be seen with the unaided eye. Binoculars and telescopes with large fields of view (approximately 3°) will show it as a foggy patch of light under sufficiently dark skies. However, using a UHC filter, which filters out some unwanted wavelengths of light, it can be seen without magnification under dark skies. Its shape and reddish color (from the hydrogen Hα emission line) show up only in photographs of the area.

The portion of the nebula resembling Mexico and Central America is known as the Cygnus Wall. This region exhibits the most concentrated star formation.

At optical wavelengths, the North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) appear distinct as they are separated by the silhouette of the dark band of interstellar dust L935. The dark cloud is however transparent to radio waves and infrared radiation, and these wavelengths reveal the central regions of Sh2-117 that are not visible to an ordinary telescope, including many highly luminous stars.

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HaLRGB NGC7000 North America Nebula, merry Christmas fellow astro photographers!, Kharan