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The North American, Pelican Nebulae & Cygnus Wall, Terry Hancock

The North American, Pelican Nebulae & Cygnus Wall

The North American, Pelican Nebulae & Cygnus Wall, Terry Hancock

The North American, Pelican Nebulae & Cygnus Wall

Description

A new composition and re assembly of my wide field view of this area capturing these most interesting areas using both broadband and narrowband filters for this view in Hubble Palette and RGB for naturally colored stars, data collected over 6 nights during July, August and September 2014 from my backyard Observatory in Western Michigan

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.

Image details

Total Integration Time 13.9 Hours

Location: DownUnderObservatory, Fremont, MI

H-Alpha 384 min, 48 x 8 min bin 1x1

OIII 360 min, 45 x 8 min bin 1x1

RGB 90 min, 30 x 3 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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The North American, Pelican Nebulae & Cygnus Wall, Terry Hancock
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