Pelican Nebula and (most of) the North America Nebula (Andrew_B)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 5070 · NGC 6989 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · North America Nebula · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg · The star 60Cyg

Pelican Nebula and (most of) the North America Nebula, Andrew_B

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Pelican Nebula and (most of) the North America Nebula

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Pelican Nebula and (most of) the North America Nebula

Despite the dodgy framing that has unfortunately missed most of the Cygnus Wall, I'm generally pleased how this turned out since it was a test of tracking rather than a serious imaging session.

It was the first proper use of guiding with my Star Adventurer and WO Zenithstar 61 and unlike my previous efforts the stars are actually round! Guiding was done by an ASIAIR Pro hooked up to an ASI178MM that was in turn attached to a WO 32mm Slide Base Uniguide scope which is a good fit for my setup due to its small size and surprisingly light weight.

Shot in narrowband using the Baader 7nm Ha filter and full-spectrum modded Fji X-A3 from a fairly dark site, although the short nights at this time of year meant the tail end of the session was during twilight when the stars were barely visible to the eye. Stacking and very minimal gradient removal was done with APP followed by a modest levels and curves adjustment with the "Clarity" filter in Affinity Photo. A final small amount of editing was done in Apple Photos to adjust black point and bring out detail using the "Definition" tool. Compared to most of my other images this was very quick and easy to process and I haven't bothered to do any noise reduction or crop out the stacking artefacts at the bottom of the frame.

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