North America and Pelican Nebulae (narrowband)

This pair of nebulae are located in the constellation Cygnus, and are approximately 2200 light years distant. Though they have separte designations, they are in fact part of the same gas cloud. The brightest portion of the North America Nebula corresponds to Mexico, and the brightest region seen there is often referred to as the "Great Wall".

This is a false colour image with Sulfur-II mapped to red, Hydrogen-alpha mapped to green, and Oxygen-III mapped to blue.

Takahashi Sky 90 at f/4.5
SBIG STL-4020M (remote guide head)
Takahashi EM-200
Ha/SII/OIII: 3 hours each channel (20 minute subexposures)
Processed with Maxim/DL, Registar, CCDStack, and Photoshop CS4
Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools

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  1. astrometry.net (35 months ago | reply)

    Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:
    (RA, Dec) center:(313.750316368, 44.3122203529) degrees
    (RA, Dec) center (H:M:S, D:M:S):(20:55:0.076, +44:18:43.993)
    Orientation:179.96 deg E of N

    Pixel scale:3.74 arcsec/pixel

    Parity:Reverse ("Left-handed")
    Field size :3.48 x 1.96 degrees

    Your field contains:
    The star 56Cyg
    The star 57Cyg
    IC 5070 / Pelican nebula
    NGC 6997
    NGC 7000 / North America nebula

    View in World Wide Telescope

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  2. Dangerous Dave Astrophotography (35 months ago | reply)

    Awesome shot Don.

  3. Astrocatou (35 months ago | reply)

    I guess this (HP) allows the (better) "highlighting" of high(er) intensity areas...
    as opposed to Ha being red...
    amazing FOV !!

  4. Erik N Larsen (35 months ago | reply)

    Wow super shot , amazing detail.

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  6. s58y (34 months ago | reply)

    Spectacular shot, with lots of sharp details.

  7. Mark Hellweg (34 months ago | reply)

    WOW WOW WOW ! AMAZING SHOT
    What a range !

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    riffsyphon1024 added this photo to his favorites. (34 months ago)

  9. riffsyphon1024 (34 months ago | reply)

    I've always loved the North America Nebula, naturally since I live there. :)

  10. markkilner (34 months ago | reply)

    This is stunning. Looks even better in the larger sizes.

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  12. ~EvidencE~ (34 months ago | reply)

    space is a beautiful place

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    a lover's discourse, himeichigo13, chelsealittle, Stephen Hill, and Designer Michael added this photo to their favorites.

  14. Calogero Mira (26 months ago | reply)

    Thanks. calogeromira.wordpress.com

  15. Redshift Astrophotography [deleted] (24 months ago | reply)

    Lovely image

  16. seasidegirl121 (23 months ago | reply)

    Just amazing!

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    Patrick J Spence added this photo to his favorites. (22 months ago)

  18. Patrick J Spence (22 months ago | reply)

    WOW

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