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The Pelican Nebula (IC5067 & IC5070), Terry Hancock

The Pelican Nebula (IC5067 & IC5070)

The Pelican Nebula (IC5067 & IC5070), Terry Hancock

The Pelican Nebula (IC5067 & IC5070)

Description

So named due to it's likeness to a Pelican, lying at a mere distance of 1800 light years from Earth is a HII region in close photographic proximity to The North American Nebula which can be seen here in one of my earlier images.

www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9490053911/in/photostr...

Here is the final color (RGB) no traditional luminance, this time I used the Red and H-Alpha combined as seen here www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/14786063462/in/photost...

as luminance.

Total Exposure 4.3 hours

Image details

Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI

Date of Shoot: July 27th 2014

H-Alpha 168 min, 21 x 8 min bin 1x1

RGB 90 min 15 x 2 min each Red, Green & Blue, bin 1x1

Equipment

QHY23 monochrome CCD cooled to -20C

Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph

Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition Maxim DL

Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack

Post Processing Photoshop CS5

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The Pelican Nebula (IC5067 & IC5070), Terry Hancock