Pelican Nebula IC 5070 Real Color
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. The color palette follows the real color of the filters, hence SII is red, Ha is red/orange and OIII is cyan.
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. The color palette follows the real colors of the filters. SII is red, Ha orange/red and OIII cyan. The image was published in Sky and Telescope Magazin.
Object Details
Type of Object
Emission Nebula
Constellation
Cygnus
Location
Eifel Nationalpark Germany