Pelican Nebula NGC5070 (Dave Erickson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 57 Cyg · HD198931 · IC 5070 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · Pelican Nebula · The star 57 Cyg

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Pelican Nebula NGC5070

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Pelican Nebula NGC5070

I have been working on the 10' dome project to house a CDK17 for the past year. Here is a first light monochrome image using the instrument. Things are no where near complete with the installation. I had some time after polar alignment and focus runs to play around and took this image.

I was on site sleeping in the dome, babying things along with the most rudimentary control systems.

There was a lot of smoke that had blown in from the Oak fire burning near Yosemite some 100++ miles north, and none of the thermal controls for the dome are operational.

Minimal processing was used, just stretch and curves, the image was down sampled from 9K to 2.5k horizontal. This is (3) 1200 second exposures, no dithering and no flat frames.

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RA (center)	20h51m19s.677
RA (top/left)	20h53m15s.416
RA (top/right)	20h49m21s.470
RA (bottom/right)	20h49m24s.637
RA (bottom/left)	20h53m16s.745

Dec (center)	+44°25′59″.45
Dec (top/left)	+44°40′07″.20
Dec (top/right)	+44°39′30″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	+44°11′44″.64
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°12′22″.35

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