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IC5070 - Pelican Nebula, Brian Hayward
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IC5070 - Pelican Nebula

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IC5070 - Pelican Nebula

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The Pelican Nebula is an HII region immediately next to the North American nebula.
In this image, I capture most of the Pelican nebula along with an interesting part of the North American nebula.
This image also captures the open cluster NGC 6997.

Integration of 64 240s lights that were calibrated with darks, flats and flat-darks.

All processing was done in Pixinsight.

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IC5070 - Pelican Nebula, Brian Hayward