After a months-long hiatus due to a combination of cloudy weather in Southern California (May-Gray and June-Gloom marine layer that ran until August) -- along with normal life stuff, but mostly due to a catastrophic equipment failure in January involving my EdgeHD 9.25 and a Hyperstar  -- I'm finally up and running again! (Although not with the EdgeHD. In brief summary: I discovered that there are indeed limits to how much torque the EdgeHD corrector plate can withstand when several pounds of optics and a camera are attached to it!  That full story can be found here: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/809458-hyperstar-catastrophe/)

During that period, I let my Astrobin subscription lapse, but I'm ready to start adding to my collection again.

This image of NGC 7000 was captured with a William Optics Fluorostar 91, which I bought back in February, while my Celestron EdgeHD was out for repair.   This image includes a total of 6h 54m of Ha, Sii, and Oiii data gathered over the course of about 5 nights during the last week of August.  It's not quite what I wanted to get for this: I spent days trying to get a significant amount of data.  Usually, the marine layer rolled in sometime between midnight and 2 am, interrupting the night's viewing.  I was forced to discard over 20 hours of data taken since early/mid August, due to poor focus issues, clouds, dew formation, or other technical issues (including one clear night that I ran the wrong image plan all night, until 4 am, when I discovered my mistake).  I also discarded all of the LRGB data (over 3 hours), which I planned to blend in to get accurate star colors.  I confess, this was not the best way to get "back on the horse"!  I almost gave up, then I finally installed the ZWO Electronic Auto Focuser I had bought last year, still gathering dust in storage (metaphorically speaking -- it was safely packaged in its original box!)  Auto-focus is a game changer for me, since I can't afford to stay up all night checking focus manually then still go to work the next day.

Together with the Pelican Nebula, NGC 7000 is part of a massive interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen and molecular dust clouds that is 2590 light years away from Earth in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. This complex spans an area of the summer night sky nearly 10x the size of the full moon. Located just east of Deneb, the "tail" of Cygnus (the Swan), this nebula is known as the North America Nebula due to its striking resemblance to the continent.

The dense, concentrated region of star formation mixed with dark clouds of interstellar dust that lines the "western coast of Mexico" is known as the Cygnus Wall.