Pelican Nebula with Herbig-Haro 555 (Torben van Hees)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · B349 · HD198639 · HD198896 · HD198931 · HD199178 · IC 5070 · LBN 334 · LBN 338 · LBN 341 · LBN 343 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · LDN 933 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56 Cyg · The star 57 Cyg

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Pelican Nebula with Herbig-Haro 555

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Pelican Nebula with Herbig-Haro 555

Link: http://astro.van-hees.name

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

The Pelican Nebula (IC 5067) is about 1800 ly distant and situated right next to the larger North America Nebula (NGC 7000), separated by a large molecular cloud. As its larger neighbour, it is a HII-region with active star formation. One particular object of interest lies at the tip of one of the worm-like dust clouds: It is Herbig-Haro-object 555, a young proto-star that is hidden to us by the dust and reveals its presence by a jet of hot matter. I was pleasantly surprised that the jet is visible. Seeing and transparency were not great the last few days.

I am really struggling to see a pelican in this nebula. To me, it looks like a ghost whose lower parts are dissolving while it is rushing along.

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RA (center)	20h50m37s.58
RA (top/left)	20h45m40s.64
RA (top/right)	20h48m19s.33
RA (bottom/right)	20h55m27s.63
RA (bottom/left)	20h53m00s.43

Dec (center)	+44°03′36″.7
Dec (top/left)	+44°43′33″.5
Dec (top/right)	+43°02′09″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°22′58″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+45°04′53″.4

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