IC5070 Pelican Nebula (Joe Niemeyer)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 5070 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg

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IC5070 Pelican Nebula

Here is my image of the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070). I think it looks more like a pterodactyl due to the shape of the back of it's head. What do you think? This is definitely one of my favorite deep sky objects due to the intricate detail throughout. The Pelican Nebula is separated from the North America Nebula to its left by a molecular cloud of dark dust and is located 1,800 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It has the familiar red glow typical of emission nebulae. IC 5070 has been studied extensively because of its active star formation and changing gas clouds of ionized hydrogen. The 10 light-year long band along the back of the Pelican's head has earned a separate listing as IC 5067 because of the amazing activity in this region. The intense light from new stars is heating the gas and pushing out new filaments causing the overall shape to evolve. And if you wait a few million years, this nebula will probably no longer look like a pelican or pterodactyl!

I made this image from thirty 300-second exposures shot at 1630mm focal length, calibrated with 20 each dark, flat, and dark flat frames. I used my Baader dual-bandpass filter (Hα and OIII) to help battle light pollution and smoke. I stacked the frames with Astro Pixel Processor and post-processed with StarNet++, Photoshop, and DeNoise AI.

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