The Pelican SHO (Mike Hamende)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · IC 5070 · LBN 343 · LBN 350 · LBN 353 · LBN 359 · LDN 933 · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg

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This image should be titled "an exercise in frustration". This is my first narrowband image with my new gear. Over 4 nights of imaging I managed to capture only 12 hours of data because of clouds and horrible transparency due to humidity and smoke. I planned to add a 5th night of data but I found that a mosfet on my HEQ5 had blown somehow, making the mount unusable. Since it is not clear how long the repair will take I decided to go ahead and process what I had. After sifting through the data I could really only use about 5 hours of it and what I kept was still questionable. Regardless of all of that I'm still fairly happy with the result. If this is what my rig can accomplish in 4 hours looking through smoke and haze I can't wait to see what some proper skies and integration will do.

I've got a little bit more tuning to do with the flattener spacing but I think I should be able to dial it in once I have my mount back.

Fortunately I still have a small AZ-GTi mount on an EQ wedge I can use with my smaller scopes. Looks like I'll have to do some widefield imaging for the time being.

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RA (center)	20h51m17s.40
RA (top/left)	20h47m54s.10
RA (top/right)	20h47m56s.55
RA (bottom/right)	20h54m33s.83
RA (bottom/left)	20h54m43s.85

Dec (center)	+43°57′00″.10
Dec (top/left)	+44°51′29″.7
Dec (top/right)	+43°02′37″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°02′06″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°51′02″.0

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