Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  62 Cyg  ·  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6989  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula  ·  Pelican Nebula  ·  The star 56 Cyg  ·  The star 57 Cyg  ·  The star ξ Cyg
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North American & Pelican Nebula - NGC7000 - IC5070 - NGC6997 - "HaHaGB", Michael Hornfeck

North American & Pelican Nebula - NGC7000 - IC5070 - NGC6997 - "HaHaGB"

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North American & Pelican Nebula - NGC7000 - IC5070 - NGC6997 - "HaHaGB", Michael Hornfeck

North American & Pelican Nebula - NGC7000 - IC5070 - NGC6997 - "HaHaGB"

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First image in quite a while with how awful the weather has been. I didn't expect this to come out so well either considering how little effort I put into the imaging session - I set up the scope on the back deck which is known to sag with temperature/humidity changes and just calibrated my guiding, set up the imaging sequence with nina, hit start and went straight to bed. Got extremely lucky with unusually good seeing where PHD2 was hovering around 0.30-0.40" throughout the night.

I shot HaRGB and used RGB for star colors, but ended up using my Ha data for luminance & red channels for the rest of the image, along with an extra bit of starless Ha in the brighter highlight regions, so I guess I could call this HaHaHaGB  Hope you enjoy it.

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North American & Pelican Nebula - NGC7000 - IC5070 - NGC6997 - "HaHaGB", Michael Hornfeck