The Pelican

Colorado CJ

Colorado CJ

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We had a clear night last night, so I decided to shoot the Pelican Nebula for the first time.

It was a cool clear night and I laid back and watched the meteor shower while the scope was doing its thing.

This is a pretty neat looking nebula with large dust jets made by proto-stars. This is what Nasa APOD has to say about the nebula.

The prominent ridge of emission featured in this vivid skyscape is designated IC 5067. Part of a larger emission region with a distinctive shape, popularly called The Pelican Nebula, the ridge spans about 10 light-years and follows the curve of the cosmic pelican's head and neck. Fantastic, dark shapes inhabiting the view are clouds of cool gas and dust sculpted by energetic radiation from young, hot, massive stars. But stars are also forming within the dark shapes. Twin jets emerging from the tip of the long, dark tendril left of center are the telltale signs of an embedded protostar cataloged as Herbig-Haro 555 (HH 555). In fact, other Herbig-Haro objects indicating the presence of protostars are found within the frame. The Pelican Nebula itself, also known as IC 5070, is about 2,000 light-years away. To find it, look northeast of bright star Deneb in the high flying constellation Cygnus.
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This was a short 4.6 hour integration shot in my Skywatcher MN190 telescope and ASI183MM Pro astro camera. This is a combination of 56, 300 second images shot through 3 narrow band filters, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III and Sulfur II.

 
JimFox

JimFox

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Very cool and very colorful! Nice work Andrew. I was up on Trail Ridge road in RMNP with Monika and I can attest the meteors despite the bright moon were off the chart.
 
Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis

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Andrew,

Nice result, if a little too closely framed by your optic train to recognize the full 'pelican' shape. Conversely though, you did get good detail on HH 555 (a Herbig-Haro region, showing jets of gas being ejected from a spinning protostar's disk). I have cropped a small portion and highlighted the object for anyone who is interested in seeing it. Very cool capture.

I also think you continue to make great progress with your narrowband post processing. I like the approximation of the Hubble palette you are typically getting on many of these narrowband images - better than my own efforts in that area I would say. I just need to get some more data of my own to work on, but that is another story :)

Great job, thanks for sharing this one. I would love to see a wider FOV of this with your same post processing at some point, if you have an appropriate OTA to use.

Here is the detail showing HH 555 that Anrew so nicely resolved in his wonderful capture, for those who are interested:
Andrew_HH555

Andrew_HH555

HH 555 Highlighted in Andrew's recent Pelican Nebula image

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