Pelican Nebula
IC 5070 & 5067
This beutiful star formation region is easy to find in the sky. Deneb, a magnitude 1.25 star, is just out frame (near the top left corner). The image is SHO palette (Sulphur/Hydrogen/Oxygen gas).
The Pelican Nebula is separated from the North America Nebula by a dark dust cloud (observe the apparent lack of stars).
Technical details
| Telescope | Skywatcher Esprit 100ED (f/5.5) |
| Filter | Atik Narroband 7nm Ha/SII/OIII |
| Field flattener | Skywatcher Esprit (1x) |
| Camera | QHYCCD 268m, -20°C, Mode 1, Gain 56, Offset 30 |
| Resolution | 6252x4176 |
| Light frames | H: 20/20 (300s), 1h40m total |
| S: 10/18 (300s), 50m total | |
| O: 24/24 (300s), 2h total | |
| 4h30m total | |
| Flat frames | 16 each (3s, per channel brightess) |
| Darkflat frames | 32 |
| Dark frames | - |
| Bias frames | - |
| Location | Kalkalpen Nationalpark, Austria |
| Local time | 2023-06-04 00:09 - 02:15 (20 frames) |
| 2023-06-29 00:00 - 02:14 (24 frames) | |
| 2023-06-30 00:08 - 01:48 (18 frames) | |
| Image center | 20h51m01s +44°24'07" |
| Field of view | 2°25’ x 1°37’ (rotation 109°) |