Pelican Nebula

Mosaic of the Cygnus Region of the Milky Way

This is a mosaic of 18 separate panels taken through an H-Alpha filter with the Rokinon 135mm f2.0 lens piggy backed on the Celestron C11 telescope. Each panel was produced by stacking 20 images comprised of 5 and 10 minute exposures. The total exposure time was 45 hours. The picture includes the Veil Nebula, North American Nebula, Pelican Nebula, TulipContinue reading “Mosaic of the Cygnus Region of the Milky Way”

Rosette Nebula – Bicolor

I made this a bicolor image by adding 12 half hour exposures with the Oxygen filter to the h-alpha exposures. With bad weather expected, that is it for now.

Pelican Nebula – Enhanced Detail

According to Wikipedia: “The Pelican is much studied because it has a particularly active mix of star formation and evolving gas clouds. The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward.” “Millions of years from now this nebula may no longer beContinue reading “Pelican Nebula – Enhanced Detail”

With the improving weather I was able to finish this off. The benefits of longer exposures are starting to pay off. The image is a stacked composite of 90 five minute narrow band exposures taken through the Astro Physics 130MM Starfire refractor for a total exposure time of 7.5 hours. It was processed in MaximContinue reading “PELICAN NEBULA”

PELICAN NEBULA – Work in Progress

Well, the weather is turning bad, so I don’t know when I will be able to add data to this narrow band photo of the Pelican Nebula. I would like to add a little more color and some more detail. So far I have stacked 10 five minute H-Alpha images and 10 five minute OIIIContinue reading “PELICAN NEBULA – Work in Progress”