Pelican nebula - HOO (Simon)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · HD198931 · HD199178 · IC 5070 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · LDN 933 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56 Cyg · The star 57 Cyg

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I am pleased to be able to present this image, as I have only ever photographed this as a relative wide field, so using the 5 inch refractor gave a very different 'feel' to things and a close-up. I am also pleased as I have managed to bring forth the 'pelican', and it does actually look like its namesake, compared to the other 'named' objects out there! This image took a bit of fiddling and the massive stretch I had to use for the OIII data was unbelievable, bearing in mind I could see no OIII in any of the subs and not a lot with the 69 sub stack! The Has was 94 subs with all subs at 3 minutes each. I hope tomorrow, the sky will be clear again, and I will obtain the SII data - it would be great to do a Hubble palette of this. The imaging time was thus 8 hours and 9 minutes. I am also particularly pleased because, as I was only telling one of our friends the other day, I will not have any astronomical darkness until 21st July - and even then I will be graced only with a massive 10 minutes of it!! I will be waiting until the end of August before I get anything really useable. So, with the lack of relative darkness in mind as well, I am happy with what I got, along with pulling out some detail on the sought after Herbig Haro objects. Take care everyone...

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RA (center)	20h51m12s.42
RA (top/left)	20h54m34s.100
RA (top/right)	20h47m50s.24
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m52s.68
RA (bottom/left)	20h54m31s.70

Dec (center)	+44°22′28″.5
Dec (top/left)	+44°46′26″.2
Dec (top/right)	+44°46′35″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°58′09″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°58′00″.2

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