IC5070 - Pelican Nebula, part of SH2-117 (Doug Gray)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · B349 · B353 · IC 5070 · LBN 329 · LBN 334 · LBN 338 · LBN 342 · LBN 343 · LBN 348 · LBN 349 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 354 · LBN 359 · LBN 371 · LBN 378 · LDN 933 · LDN 935 · LDN 936 · LDN 940 · NGC 6989 · NGC 6996 · NGC 6997 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg

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IC5070 - Pelican Nebula, part of SH2-117

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It's amazing how much detail continues to be revealed as the exposure time climbs. While I was initially trying to capture the wall of hydrogen and sulfur in the lower left, now I think the dark dust clouds are really the most interesting part of the shot. It seems this broader area which includes the North America nebula (SH2-117) is really more like the Trifid nebula, with a dark cloud of dust obscuring a pool of oxygen within a ring of hydrogen and sulfur.

This was shot over 2 weeks where clouds kept appearing around midnight, which slowed my data collection for this and other projects to a crawl. The post-processing mostly followed my usual approach of weighted FWHM stacking. SHO palette with RGB stars. I spent much more time doing star removing solely in photoshop, as I've gotten tired of the StarNet++ artifacts. The content aware fill seem to produce better results, but only if you can get a good star mask. Final tuning with the camera raw filter.

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RA (center)	20h52m19s.86
RA (top/left)	20h57m22s.98
RA (top/right)	20h57m59s.99
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m31s.56
RA (bottom/left)	20h46m23s.84

Dec (center)	+44°08′56″.5
Dec (top/left)	+45°37′17″.7
Dec (top/right)	+42°45′41″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°39′38″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+45°30′57″.9

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