The Pelican Nebula in Cygnus (IC 5070), 3nm Ha filter, 49 x...
The Pelican Nebula in Cygnus (IC 5070), 3nm Ha filter, 49 x 300-second exposures stacked in DSS shot with a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro monochrome camera running at -10C. IC 5070 is part of the larger North America nebula region, about 2600 lightyears away.
With the milky way swinging up in the East above 30° around 11:30 pm, I only have three to four hours of narrowband nebula imaging time. Spring is “Galaxy Season” after all, with most of the northern hemisphere night sky time directed away from our own galactic core and into the depths of the known universe. You know, where many of the other galaxies are.
The skies weren’t particularly clear last night, but good enough for some long exposure hydrogen-alpha imaging of the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) in the constellation Cygnus. The Pelican is the next-door neighbor of NGC 7000, the North America Nebula. With an 800mm focal length and the ZWO ASI1600MM camera I can only fit most of the nebula into the frame, but a nice clear view of the star-forming structures on the north-facing side, the “top” of the nebula.
