Soaring high in the sky on these increasing cool fall nights is the Pelican Nebula. It takes some imagination, can you see it? This is an HII region of ionized intersteller atomic hydrogen left over from "recent" star formation. The gas clouds are still evolving and in a few million years may look like something else entirely. Enjoy it while you can!
Photo Details
October 17-18 & 26, 2017
Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount
SBIG STF-8300C Camera
Baader MPC Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector
Skyglow filter
66 subframes at 3 minutes/frame
Total Exposure Time = 3 hours 6 minutes
Image Acquisition in CCDOps
Image Stacking in Deep Sky Tracker
Image Processing in PhotoShop
Image Acquisition in CCDOps
Image Stacking in Deep Sky Tracker
Image Processing in PhotoShop
