IC 5070 -- Pelican Nebula

[konstantinos75]

Hi

This is my first light image with Skyx pro camera addon.

The Pelican Nebula (LRGBHa combination) in Cygnus was captured from Kifisia which is a suburb in the north area of Athens Greece.

Full processing with Pixinsight.

You may download the image here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dz08d2nk49z7gs1/Pelican.png?dl=0

Technical details here:

Optics: Vixen ED81s @ f/5.2

Mount: HEQ5 synscan Pro

Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 finderscope+DMK21AU04

Camera: SBIG ST2000XM

Filter Wheel: SBIG CFW9

Filters: Baader Ha, Astronomik RGB

CCD Temperature: -5 degrees Celsius

Constellation: Cygnus

Date: 19-20 August, 2015

Location: Kifisia, Greece

Exposure

Red : 60 min (20x3 min)

Green : 60 min (20x3 min)

Blue : 60 min (20x3 min)

Ha: 120 min (8x15 min)

L: synthetic Luminance

Binning: 1x1(R,G,B,Ha,L)

Software

Skyx, Pixinsight 

Clear skies!!!

[Dave In Vermont]

Very nice image you've taken! I look forward to seeing more - if your weather doesn't do what it's doing here.

Keep going!

Dave

[MarsG76]

That looks very good... 

[xtreemchaos]

great firstlight image mate, well done.charl.

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Thanks for posting.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Looks very nice indeed

[konstantinos75]

Thank you

This is a better processed image of the Pelican Nebula. 

I found the way in Pixinsight to save images for web without loosing color details.

I hope you enjoy this version

http://www.albireo.gr/astrogallery/nebulae/diffuse/2015.08.20/Pelican.html