North American Pelican (Steve Spring)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · HD198896 · HD198931 · HD199178 · HD199373 · HD199395 · HD199479 · HD199511 · HD199547 · HD199870 · HD199939 · HD199956 · HD200060 · HD200311 · HD200407 · IC 5070 · LBN 334 · LBN 338 · LBN 343 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 354 · LBN 356 · LBN 359 · LBN 373 · LDN 933 · LDN 935 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · And 5 more.

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This is my first real target with the Hyperstar fitted to my trusty old C8 XLT with a rough collimation. It is a 2 panel mosaic taken over two nights. This is also my first run out with the IDAS NBZ UHS. The moon was nearing full which which has left some halo's in the Pelican Nebula from the blue channel OIII. I really need to find a way to reduce the effect of these in my processing workflow.

I have been lucky enough to get my old NEQ6 in with Darkfame Ltd and Dave there has worked his magic on it. It guides beautifully and has completely eliminated mount errors from the equation for me, anything untoward now is down to me and the weather.

I am overwhelmed by the combination. I ran 10 minute subs and the data was incredible in comparison to anything I've ever taken before. I haven't spent forever on processing, I have benefitted fom the hard work of others. The new WBPP 2.4.5, the OSCDB script, NoiseXterminator, Starnet2 and EZ processing suite have automated a great deal of the work. No doubt others would have produced a better result but I am happy with it.

It's great to see what can be teased out of the sky with a second hand OTA which is probably the best part of twenty years old.

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RA (center)	20h55m34s.89
RA (top/left)	21h04m05s.33
RA (top/right)	20h47m46s.99
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m14s.80
RA (bottom/left)	21h03m09s.31

Dec (center)	+44°00′32″.4
Dec (top/left)	+44°35′53″.6
Dec (top/right)	+44°51′42″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°22′47″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°07′26″.4

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