Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5068  ·  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula  ·  Pelican Nebula  ·  The star 55Cyg  ·  The star 56Cyg  ·  The star 57Cyg  ·  The star 60Cyg  ·  The star Deneb (αCyg)  ·  The star νCyg  ·  The star ξCyg
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North American Nebula Region, Jim Thommes
North American Nebula Region
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North American Nebula Region

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North American Nebula Region, Jim Thommes
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North American Nebula Region

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This image shows the popularly known North American Nebula region. Its wide field coverage includes the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070, LBN 350), IC 5968 (LBN 328), and the dark lane that runs South to North through this field. There are many dark and bright nebulae from Lynds catalogs and others. There are also, open clusters NGC 6997, Berkeley 54 and planetary nebula NGC 7027 (PK 84-3.1). These objects, some Lynds cataloged objects and some of the brighter stars are identified in the annotated image. Verticalal FOV is approximately 7.37 degrees. Full size image scale is about 7.0 arcsec/pix.

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