Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5070  ·  Pelican Nebula
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The Pelican, the Raven, and the Worm, John Willis
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The Pelican, the Raven, and the Worm

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The Pelican, the Raven, and the Worm, John Willis
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The Pelican, the Raven, and the Worm

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My summer project with the EdgeHD 800. I wanted to hit a fully saturated field and see how far I could push the scope and my skills. This was shot over over about 10 or so nights. I was really taken with this framing and I haven't seen it quite this way often. The dark dust area reminds me of a raven, with the long nebula lane of star formation looking like it's breakfast worm.

I processed this by taking the separate narrowband channels, stripping the stars from each channel and balancing the secondary humps of each channel instead of just the peaks. This let a lot more of the rich color variation to come through. I then processed the star color separately to avoid big halos and re-added them to the image.

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The Pelican, the Raven, and the Worm, John Willis