Pelican Nebula IC 5070 Hubble Palette


Details

IC 5070 the Pelican Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus, is located just next to the North America Nebula NGC 7000. In fact this is one large HII emission nebula, that is just divided by a large dense cloud of interstellar dust. This image shows a modified hubble palette rendition of IC 5070.


Image Details

Telescope Optics
Takahashi FSQ106EDXII

Mount
Alt AD6 + Koch FS2

Camera
SBIG ST8300 and QSI WSG8300

Filters
Baader and Astrodon Narrowband

Integration Time
15x1200s Ha, 16x1200s SII and 14x1200s OIII

Date
June July 2012

Conditions
Good Sky Conditions

Remarks
First Light of the Takahashi FSQ EDX. The SBIG camera returned after a repair and meanwhile i used a friends QSI Camera.

Object Details

Type of Object
Emission Nebula

Constellation
Cygnus

Location
Eifel Nationalpark Germany