IC5070
Pelican Nebula
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| Other names: |
SH2-117 (refers to the North American and Pelican Nebulae) |
| Optics: |
Stellarvue SV80S at f/4.8 |
| Mount: |
Losmandy GM-8 w/Gemini — photo of setup |
| Camera: |
SBIG ST-10XME @ -20°C |
| Exposure: |
340 minutes [ 10 minute subs — 120 minutes SII, 100 minutes Hα, 120 minutes OIII ] |
| Accessories: |
CFW-10 | Astrodon 6nm filters | TeleVue 0.8x Reducer/Flattener (TRF-2008) |
| Location: |
Mt. Pinos, CA |
| Date |
August 1, 2008 |
| Notes: |
Processing: Image and dark frame acquisition, reduction, combine, and align in CCDSoft. Color frame align in ImagesPlus. Color combine in MaxIm DL/CCD. Levels, curves, color balance, unsharp mask, selective Gaussian blur, and resize in Photoshop.
My first narrowband image.
Click the image for a larger version (1200 x 1600, ~2.1 MB).
See the Hα-only version here or a one-shot color version here.
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