Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Sh2-117
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Part of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20), Sasho Panov
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Part of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20)

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Part of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20), Sasho Panov
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Part of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20)

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The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) in the constellation Cygnus imaged with Hubble palette (SHO)

This deep space object is an emission nebula consisting of interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen (HII) and much smaller portion of other gases (OII, SII and others). It also contains a dark regions of dense interstellar dust. Image contains only a portion of this giant nebula that is located approximately 1600 light years from the Earth.

Despite excellent sky quality of the imaging location, intermittent clouds resulted in app. 3.7 hours of integration.

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Part of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20), Sasho Panov