Pelican nebula is large cloud of hydrogen gas, where many stars are being born, located in constellation Cygnus (Swan). The nebula is approximately 2000 light-years away from Earth. If you use bit of an imagination, you will be able to see the pelican in the dark cloud surrounding the brighter center of the nebula – good luck with searching.
The picture was taken completely by narrow band filters. The first one is in “fake” Hubble palette and second one as a bi-color image (Ha in red channel, OIII in green and blue channel).
Technical details
Telescope: | Newton 150/600 mm |
Aperture: | 150 mm |
Focal length: | 438 mm |
Mount | Gemini G53f |
Autoguiding | TS 60 mm, ZWO 174 MM |
Camera: | Moravian instruments G2 8300M @-30C |
Corrector: | ASA 0.73 reducer |
Filters: | Baader narrow band |
Exposure:8x | 32xHa, 32xOIII, 32xSII 180 s, bin 1x1, |
Date: | 2017-12-15 |