The North America Nebula and Pelican Nebula in SHO (Travis L)

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The North America Nebula and Pelican Nebula in SHO

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This is an image I originally took in September of 2021 for my very first attempt at a big project for my new monochrome camera setup. I had a lot of gaps in my knowledge at the time that lead to less than optimal gathering of exposures, not tossing out enough bad frames, and just general processing skills which at the time resulted in a final image that I felt was not worth sharing. I kept my unprocessed stacks in case I ever wanted to come back to it (since I don't have enough storage to keep my raw exposures), and that opportunity finally came when I was going through my images to organize them more neatly. While there are definitely some issues such as stars not looking very good if you zoom way in on them, I am super happy with the results considering this is old data that incorporates some bad frames and I made the mistake of gathering WAY more hydrogen than oxygen or sulfur. I hope you enjoy!

Integrated exposures:
58 x 600s = 9 hours 40 minutes hydrogen
63 x 300s = 5 hours 15 minutes hydrogen
14 hours 55 minutes total hydrogen

13 x 600s = 2 hours 10 minutes sulfur
27 x 300s = 2 hours 15 minutes sulfur
4 hours 25 minutes total sulfur

13 x 600s = 2 hours 10 minutes oxygen
10 x 300s = 50 minutes total oxygen
3 hours total oxygen

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8828117
PixInsight job	P1VXOZU3OEGKZET1DQ3Z4KN7MQ4RB9KM
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h55m51s.70
RA (top/left)	21h03m09s.80
RA (top/right)	20h43m06s.44
RA (bottom/right)	20h49m00s.58
RA (bottom/left)	21h08m26s.47

Dec (center)	+44°20′40″.2
Dec (top/left)	+46°15′02″.7
Dec (top/right)	+44°41′24″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°24′28″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°54′35″.6

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