So named due to it's likeness to a Pelican, lying at a mere distance of 1800 light years from Earth is a HII region in close photographic proximity to The North American Nebula which can be seen here in one of my earlier images.
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9490053911/in/photostr...This black and white image is unusual in as much it is photographed in only RED light not luminance or H-Alpha as I and other imagers would normally publish. The reason I did this is because the QHY23 Mono CCD is extremely sensitive to H-Alpha which using standard broadband filters can be best seen in Red. In my opinion it makes for a very interesting image. I will be posting H-Alpha, H-Alpha and Red Combined along with color shortly.
Total Exposure 30 minutes.
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Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot: July 27th 2014
RED 30 min 15 x 2 min ea, bin 1x1
Equipment
QHY23 monochrome CCD cooled to -20C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
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