NGC 7000, The North American Nebula (greenbbs)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 5070 · NGC 6989 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · North America Nebula · Pelican Nebula · The star 55Cyg · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg · The star 60Cyg · The star Deneb (αCyg) · The star ξCyg

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NGC 7000, The North American Nebula

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NGC 7000, The North American Nebula

The North American Nebula

I recently acquired an original version Sony A7s so that I could get back into shooting the universe without wasting a ton of time at night. It's a VERY powerful camera for taking pictures of the stars. It has enormous pixels, so you can capture as much light as humanly possible in as short of a time as possible. By having such large pixels, you can really push the camera to its limits and create really amazing photos.

The North American nebula lives in the constellation Cygnus, near the very bright star Deneb (which you can see to the far right of the photo). It has a very familiar shape, almost like the continent North America, which is why it has the name that it does. The area forming "Mexico" and "Central America" is where most of the star formation in this region comes from.

This is the first time I've attempted to seriously do the NA nebula, as I could never get it right with my old A99 (when I still owned it). I still cannot believe that this camera is as powerful as it is, and has as little noise as it does.

These are 12 x 25 second shots, for a total of 5 minutes of integration (the clouds were rolling in, my alignment and tracking was on point, so I just ran with it!). It's amazing how much detail you get with the massive pixels the original version of the A7s has!

Sony A7s

Sony 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 @200mm

ISO 6400

25 seconds X 12 images, 5 minutes of integration total.

Stacked in Pixinsight, finished in Photoshop and Lightroom. Noise reduction achieved in Topaz Labs AI Denoise

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