My widest image of this region with this 3 panel Mosaic spanning an area approximately 2.5 x 5.5 degrees, captured using QHY11/TAK E180 presented here in H-Alpha, Hubble Palette and RGB with H-Alpha.
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus that resembles the shape of North America and The Gulf Of Mexico. It lies at a distance of approximately 1800 light years away from us.
It contains some very interesting areas such as The Cygnus Wall which is representative of Mexico and Central America and the nearby Pelican Nebula (IC5070) which is not usually referred to as within The American Nebula however it is part of the same cloud of ionized Hydrogen.
Image details
Total Exposure Time 13.9 Hours
Location: DownUnderObservatory, Fremont, MI
H-Alpha 384 min, 48 x 8 min bin 1x1
OIII 360 min, 45 x 8 min bin 1x1
RGB 90 min, 30 x 3 min each bin 1x1
QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -10C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
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