Pelican Nebula IC5070 (Albert van Duin)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 57 Cyg · IC 5070 · Pelican Nebula · The star 57Cyg · V0751 Cyg · V1479 Cyg · V1490 Cyg · V1491 Cyg · V1492 Cyg · V1493 Cyg · V1531 Cyg · V1532 Cyg · V1597 Cyg · V1598 Cyg · V1600 Cyg · V1701 Cyg · V1702 Cyg · V1703 Cyg · V1704 Cyg · V1706 Cyg · V1707 Cyg · V2022 Cyg · V2492 Cyg · V2561 Cyg

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Pelican Nebula IC5070

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Pelican Nebula IC5070

Finally resumed imaging after a four month break.

I had to deal with the usual startup problems, mostly software-update related.
And I noticed that collimation is off too.

And the bushes in our garden had grown so fast that at the moment they severely limit the portion of visible sky from the observatory. In the end I decided to image the Pelican in SHO. since it was favourably placed. Some pruning has to take place the coming time...

15 x 1200s H-alpha, and 4 x 1200s each for OIII and SII.

Nights are still very short this time of year, so I may need to add another night of image data to mitigate the noise!

A time lapse of the night with the telescope in action can be seen here:
https://astropix.nl/allsky/videos/allsky-20210810.mp4

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Description: Added 4 hours of H-Alpha as luminance

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Astrometry.net job	4921076
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RA (center)	20h50m59s.211
RA (top/left)	20h53m28s.395
RA (top/right)	20h48m41s.508
RA (bottom/right)	20h48m31s.503
RA (bottom/left)	20h53m15s.315

Dec (center)	+44°23′39″.87
Dec (top/left)	+44°42′40″.11
Dec (top/right)	+44°45′16″.92
Dec (bottom/right)	+44°04′27″.37
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°01′52″.89

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