An emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus that resembles the shape of North America and The Gulf Of Mexico. It lies at a distance of approximately 1800 light years away from us.
It contains some very interesting areas such as "The Cygnus Wall" which is representative of Mexico and Central America and the nearby Pelican Nebula (IC5070) which is not usually referred to as within The American Nebula however it is part of the same cloud of ionized Hydrogen.
This wide field view in Hubble Palette, plus using RGB for naturally colored stars, captured with the QHY11/Takahashi E-180 over 3 nights in July, August and September 2014 from my backyard Observatory in Western Michigan
Total Exposure 5.5 hours
Larger Annotated view here:
nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/842567Image details
Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot: July 18th, August 13th 2014
H-Alpha 128 min, 16 x 8 min bin 1x1
OIII 120 min, 15 x 8 min bin 1x1
LRGB 80 min, 10 x 2 min each bin 1x1
QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -10C
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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