IC5070 - The Pelican Nebula in Narrowband and RGB
The Pelican Nebula in Cygnus
Camera: Moravian G4 (16803 ccd chip) with Gen II Astrodon RGB, SII, H-Alpha and OIII filters
AP155 EDF F/7 w Focus Boss II
Mount: Paramount MX
RGB: 16x10min each channel
SII: 40x20min
H-Alpha: 21 x 20 min
OIII: 18x20min
Acquired with TSX using CCD-Commander
Processing
in PixInsight and Photoshop CC where the NB stars were replaced by an
overlaid RGB image with correct star colours (see bottom image)
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Below is the pure Narrowband image in SHO palette, before the stars were corrected:
Below is the pure RGB image, which to be fair, may be more to most peoples' tastes:
Lucknow, Ontario
October 2022
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