Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5068  ·  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  NGC 7039  ·  North America Nebula  ·  Pelican Nebula  ·  The star 55Cyg  ·  The star 56Cyg  ·  The star 57Cyg  ·  The star 60Cyg  ·  The star Deneb (αCyg)  ·  The star ξCyg
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
North America and Pelican, Marco Gulino
North America and Pelican
Powered byPixInsight

North America and Pelican

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
North America and Pelican, Marco Gulino
North America and Pelican
Powered byPixInsight

North America and Pelican

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Given the unusual stride of sunny days and clear nights, and the lockdown in force, forcing me to stay indoors instead of searching for dark places, but also offering more time for imaging at the same time, I decided to take a few steps in doing more "garden astrophotography".

This is my first experiment with some new equipment: an Optolong L-Enhance narrowband filter, and a iOptron CEM40. The first allows me to image many targets even from heavily light polluted skies (here in London, Bortle 8 or 9), the latter allows for longer exposures, a necessity using narrowband.

Full story: https://blog.gulinux.net/en/blog/2020-06-01-backyard-deep-sky-north-america-and-pelican

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

North America and Pelican, Marco Gulino

In these public groups

Imagers of Italy
UK Astro-Imaging

In these collections

Best of
Deep Sky: nebulae