Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) in Hα
A short 43 minute integration in hydrogen-alpha under a full moon still produced some nice details in this monochrome image of the Pelican Nebula.
Equipment:
ZWO ASI1600MM-C Camera @ -15C and
Gain:300 Offset:50
Software Bisque MyT Mount
Stellarvue SVQ100 Astrograph Refractor, 580mm @ f/5.8
Software:
Pixinsight Commercial Version 1.8
Lightroom CC
Photoshop CC
Light Frames:
Ha: 13 x 200 secs (43 mins)
Dark Frames:
6 x 200 secs (20 mins)
Details about The Pelican Nebula From Wikipedia:
The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067[1]) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name.[1] The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbour, the North America Nebula, by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust.
The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555.[1]
