Pelican Nebula (IC5070) Ionisation Front

[vineyard]

Hello,

I've been testing out an old, carefully looked after (& now discontinued) ASI178MM-Cool on both solar & DSO (yet to do lunar).  So far am liking it a lot.

Here's 4h37 from 3 sessions focused deep in the Pelican, concentrated on an ionisation front.  The front is the boundary between advancing hot gas from energetic young stars & cold gas.  The dense textures & filaments are the cold gas from what I can tell from a bit of research.

It's not quite this amazing image, but it'll do for me!

Kit was TV76 w 0.79 reducer-flattener, and UHC & CLSCCD filters double-stacked on it (to try and create a synthetic triband).  60s lights at -10C (most of them at gain 50).  Guided.  Darks applied.  APP then PI.  JPEGs for size.  Some closer crops & the full image.  I'm not sure which framing I like best.

All C&C welcome.

Cheers,

Vin