Pelican Nebula - IC 5070 (Tom Engwall)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · HD198896 · HD198931 · HD199178 · IC 5070 · LBN 343 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · LDN 933 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56 Cyg · The star 57 Cyg

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This ended up a straight SHO Hubble Palette image but I did experiment with other combinations using pixel math. The other methods definitely produced different colors but I think I need to experiment with them more to really master what they do. I did linear fit the Ha and OIII to the SII master and I think that really helped with the yellowish portion in the bottom right - that really seemed to bring out the detail there. After combining the masters I used Star X Terminator to split out the stars from the nebula and processed the starless image with curves, LHE , Dark Structure Enhancement and a little Unsharp Mask.. I corrected the magenta in the stars before adding them back and applied a little SCNR (40%) to the combined image. I also applied a little of Bill Blanshan's star reductions to reduce the halo around the two biggest stars.

Sll 68 x 600
Ha 79 x 600
Olll 73 x 600

Total 36.7 Hours

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Astrometry.net job	6317361
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h52m15s.960
RA (top/left)	20h54m52s.910
RA (top/right)	20h54m15s.208
RA (bottom/right)	20h49m36s.718
RA (bottom/left)	20h50m19s.331

Dec (center)	+44°07′36″.58
Dec (top/left)	+43°32′46″.12
Dec (top/right)	+44°47′05″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	+44°42′18″.74
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°28′01″.80

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