The Pelican Nebula

Emission Nebula

Constellation: Cygnus

Imaging Equipment:

• Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106N f/5 4-element fluorite refractor
• Zeiss II German Equatorial Mount
• Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array)
• CWF8 Color filter wheel using Hydrogen-alpha (deep-red) narrow band (3 nm) dichroic filter

Exposure Information:

• Date: Saturday, November 25, 2000
• Location: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
• Elevation: Approx. 3500'
• Total exposure time: 60 minutes. (12 exp. of 5 minutes each)
• Processing: dark and flat cal, linear sum, and DDP in MaxIm. False coloration, final level adjustments, crop and security with Photoshop.

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