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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula (SHO) #4, Molly Wakeling
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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula (SHO) #4

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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula (SHO) #4, Molly Wakeling
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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula (SHO) #4

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This is a short one -- I got a set of filters to test for Optolong, mainly their new 3nm narrowband filters, and a great narrowband target I really wanted to do was the Pelican. Being in Cygnus, I caught the last views of it before it sank below the western horizon back in mid-January, but I'm just finally having some time and energy to process it.

The Pelican Nebula is a hydrogen emission region in the constellation Cygnus -- aka, a stellar nursery. Cygnus is usually associated with summertime when it's high in the sky, but it's far enough north that it's visible well into winter. It's part of the larger North America Nebula structure. Hot, young stars with energetic stellar winds carve out shapes in the gas and dust clouds.

I haven't done much Hubble palette before because I don't own a sulfur filter (yet)!

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IC 5070 Pelican Nebula (SHO) #4, Molly Wakeling

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