Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5070  ·  Pelican nebula
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IC 5070 The Pelican Nebula, Alex Woronow
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IC 5070 The Pelican Nebula

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IC 5070 The Pelican Nebula, Alex Woronow
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IC 5070 The Pelican Nebula

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IC 5070 “Pelican Nebula”

Deep Sky West (Rowe, NM) 14.5" RCOS, SBIG 16803 w/ Adaptive Optics

Exposures:

OIII 16 x 1800" (480')

Ha 16 x 1800" (480')

SII 16 x 1800” (480’)

total: 24 hrs

Color Assignment:

Red = .50*Ha + .50*S

Green = .15*Ha + .85*O

Blue = S

Image width 0.6 degrees

Alex Woronow (2018-19) Processing in PixInsight, Affinity, Skylum

IC 5070 is associated with a nebula known as the “North American Nebula,” a large interstellar cloud of molecules (e.g., hydrogen molecules) and dust. The region of the Pelican nebula draws much research attention because it has a particularly active mix of star-formation associate with an actively evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly heating cold gas and causing it to ionize along an advancing front. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found jets emitted from Herbig-Haro objects (e.g., just upper left of the Pelican’s dark silhouette). Herbig-Harlo objects are seen as patches of nebulosity associated with newly born stars, the jets form when narrow jets of gas ejected by those stars collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust at speeds of several hundred kilometers per second.

This annotated image shows several of the Herbig-Haro Objects and Molecular Hydrogen emission-line Object (both indicate young stars_:

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IC 5070 The Pelican Nebula, Alex Woronow