IC 5070 Pelican Nebula #3 (Molly Wakeling)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · B349 · IC 5070 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg

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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula #3

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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula #3

One of my astro-buddies in the Sacramento astronomy club invited me up this weekend with some other club members who were camping out at their dark sky site. It was a 2.5 hour drive, and it was very last-minute (got the invite around 10:45 AM; car was loaded and out of the driveway at 4:30 PM! All my camping gear was scattered around the house since I haven't camped yet since I moved out to CA last August). I'm so thankful I got to go!!

Instead of unpacking from the camping trip (although I did get my mount set back up!), I processed one of my datasets from this weekend. Woweeeee!!! I'm so glad I only did one target on each of my rigs. I was able to take full advantage of this dark site to produce an image I'm really excited about!

This is the Pelican Nebula, IC 5070, which is just above the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus, near the familiar bright star Deneb. Cygnus is up high in the sky in the band of the Milky Way for us northern observers, and it is an incredibly star-rich area with a ton of hydrogen gas floating around. It's an active star-forming region, and the gas clouds are continually evolving -- the area will look much different in a million years!

In just two nights, I was able to gather LRGB data, as well as some Ha and OIII. I enhanced the colors and detail of the LRGB image by combining it with the narrowband data. (L+Ha, R+Ha, and G,B+OIII).

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RA (center)	20h50m49s.40
RA (top/left)	20h45m42s.24
RA (top/right)	20h56m02s.65
RA (bottom/right)	20h56m04s.22
RA (bottom/left)	20h45m28s.85

Dec (center)	+44°20′45″.5
Dec (top/left)	+43°36′49″.0
Dec (top/right)	+43°38′10″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+45°03′52″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+45°02′26″.5

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