NGC 7000, IC 5070 - North America & Pelican Nebula - SHO

[Taman]

NGC 7000, IC 5070 - North America and Pelican Nebula. Complex emission nebula located about 1500 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. The illuminating star is hidden behind a dark dust cloud (LDN 935) that runs through the middle of the image. The feature known as the Cygnus Wall (bottom left), is a region of ionised Hydrogen and dust which has high levels of star formation.

The last image I produced from this data was a smaller crop showing detail of the Cygnus Wall. I decided to start from scratch and reprocess the entire image including the Pelican Nebula.

Imaged over 3 nights, modified Hubble palette (SHO). Processed with DeepSkyStacker, SiriL, Photoshop and Starnet++.

25 x 360s Ha, 25 x 360s Oiii, 20 x 360s Sii. Total exposure time 7 hours.

William Optics Zenithstar 73 and ZWO ASI294MM Pro.

Thanks for looking!

Tony.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Taman

[Richard_]

Cracking image, Tony. Very smooth and lovely colours, well done 🙂

[Taman]

Thanks Richard, much appreciated!

Tony.

[Sleepy Kiki]

Love the framing of this with the pelican looking down on the wall

[Taman]

2 hours ago, Sleepy Kiki said:

Love the framing of this with the pelican looking down on the wall

Thank you! I'm really pleased how it turned out.

[simmo39]

v nice!

[teoria_del_big_bang]

That's a lovely image Tony, lots of detail but subtle colours which I prefer 🙂 

Steve

[Taman]

1 hour ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

That's a lovely image Tony, lots of detail but subtle colours which I prefer 🙂 

Steve

Thanks Steve! I prefer the "pastel" colours too. It's easy to oversaturate, especially with the reds.

Tony.