NGC-7000 The North American Nebula (Steve Argereow)

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NGC-7000 The North American Nebula

NGC-7000

NGC 7000 - The North American Nebula - Emission Nebula
NGC 7000 is a giant emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus that spans 120 x 100 arc minutes of apparent sky. It's one of a number of low surface brightness nebulae surrounding first magnitude star, Deneb (α Cyg - mag. +1.25). Under dark skies this object can be spotted with the naked eye, appearing as a faint hazy patch of light although even the smallest amount of light pollution renders it invisible.
The integrated magnitude of NGC 7000 is probably about +4.5. However, this is misleading due its large size and some parts of the nebula shine no brighter than 12th magnitude. When photographed or imaged, NGC 7000 bears a striking resemblance to the North American continent, hence it's nickname "the North America Nebula".
NGC 7000 was discovered by William Herschel on October 24, 1786 and first photographed by Max Wolf on December 12, 1890. It is 1,600 light-years away, with a radius of 28 light years and best seen from northern latitudes during the months of July, August and September.

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Telescope Meade 6000 80mm APO Refractor
Used X0.8 Reducer at f4.8

Camera ZWO 1600 Gain 139 Offset 21
ZWO EFW
50 X 2.5 min exposures with SII Filter (7nm) Total 2 Hours 5 Min Filter by ZWO
50 X 2.5 min exposures with Ha Filter (7nm)Total 2 Hours 5 Min Filter by ZWO
50 X 2.5 min exposures with OIII Filter (8.5nm) Total 2 Hours 5 Min Filter by Celestron
Total Time 6 Hours 15 Minutes

Mount IOptron CEM40

Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor (SHO Hubble 1) = Hubble Palette
Guiding PHD2
Processing with Astra Image

Taken at Seven Lakes, NC Bortle 4.5

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RA (center)	20h59m24s.75
RA (top/left)	21h06m33s.35
RA (top/right)	20h52m38s.95
RA (bottom/right)	20h52m29s.47
RA (bottom/left)	21h05m57s.42

Dec (center)	+44°26′21″.7
Dec (top/left)	+45°18′22″.2
Dec (top/right)	+45°23′47″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°32′49″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°27′35″.9

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