North America and Pelican Nebulae (NGC 7000 and IC 5070)
Constellation: Cygnus
The full size image is here: NGC7000-IC5070-North-America-and-Pelican-Nebulae 5013×4679
North America Nebula
– Magnitude: 4.0
– Angular Size: 120 x 100 arc-min
– Distance: 1,600 ly
Pelican Nebula
– Magnitude: 8.0
– Angular Size: 60 x 50 arm-min
– Distance: 1,800 ly
The image spans 3.2 x 3.0 degrees which translates to an actual size of 96 x 89 ly.
Two pane mosaic
– the left part of the NA Nebula is from a data set acquired 2010-10-09 using a TV Pronto and Canon XS.
– the right side of the image, including a good portion of the NA nebula and all of the Pelican Nebula was acquired 2014-10-24 with a Stellarvue 80mm APO and a Canon T2i.
NA Nebula
– TV Pronto 70mm with 0.8x reducer f/5.5 (380mm FL)
– Canon XS (filter removed)
– Baader UHC
– 15 x 12min at ISO1600 (total integration time 3hrs)
– Mount: CGE Pro
– Guiding: Orion ST80, Chameleon, Metaguide
– Capture: ImagesPlus
– Calibration and Stacking: PixInsight
– Processing: PixInsight
– cropped and up-sampled to the match the T2i image scale
Pelican Nebula
– SV80st 80mm AOP with 0.8x reducer f/4.8 (380mm FL)
– Canon T2i (astrodon IR/UV filter)
– Baader UHC
– 57 x 5min at ISO1600 (total integration time 4hrs 45min)
– Mount: CGE Pro
– Guiding: Orion ST80, Chameleon, Metaguide
– Capture: Backyard EOS
– Calibration and Stacking: PixInsight
– Processing: PixInsight
– cropped and original image scale