Pelican Nebula in LRGB

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, thus giving rise to its name.

The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward.

Object	Pelican Nebula
Link	https://www.shetzers.com/pelican-nebula/
Wiki Link	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_Nebula
Hemisphere	Northern
Constellation	Cygnus
Other Names contained in image	IC 5070, IC 5067
Imaging telescopes or lenses	Takahashi FSQ -106ED4
Imaging cameras	QHY268M
Mounts	Software Bisque Paramount MYT
Focal reducers	None
Software	Software Bisque The Sky X, N.I.N.A., PHD Lab PHD2, Viking, PixInsight, Photoshop, Lightroom
Filters	Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance 36mm unmounted. Chroma Technology Narrowband 3nm Ha, SII, OIII – 36mm Unmounted
Accessories	Moonlite NightCrawler 35 focuser, Maxdome II, Digital Loggers Pro Switch, Sky Alert Weather Station, Pegagsus Ultimate Powerbox v2, Starlight Xpress filter wheel, Alnitak Flip-Flat
Guiding Telescope or Lenses	Orion 60mm Guide Scope
Guiding Camera	ZWO ASI290MM Mini
Imaging Dates	11/20/22, 11/21/22, 11/22/22, 11/24/22, 11/25/22, 11/30/22
Frames	Luminance: 29×300″ (2.4h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -25C, Bin 1×1 Red: 29×300″ (2.4h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -25C, Bin 1×1 Green: 28×300″ (2.3h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -25C, Bin 1×1 Blue:28×300″ (2.3h) Gain 25, Photographic Mode, Temp -25C, Bin 1×1
Integration	9.5h
Darks	50
Flats	20 per Filter
Flat Darks	40
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:	2
RA center	312.93208
DEC center	44.1101
Pixel scale	3.76
Resolution	6280 x 4210
Locations	Sirus 3.5m Observatory, Carbondale Colorado
Data source	Backyard
Seeing	Average
Post Processing Techniques	PixInsight to Photoshop to Lightroom

Pelican Nebula was last modified: January 23rd, 2023 by Matt Shetzer