Here is my shot taken while dodging fireworks & enduring the fire smoke /haze……
I see the vague Pelican head, but it looks more like a deer head profile facing right or pterodactyl head pointing left to me…what do you see???
The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070 and IC 5067) is an H II star formation region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
Located about 1,800 light-years away, the Pelican is heavily 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.
Notice all the massive dark nebula present in this FOV?
I really like the large well defined mountains of gas and dust at the center.
Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555.
Capture details:
Celestron RASA 8″ F2.2 Scope, ZWO 294MC cooled Cmos Camera, Starizona NBZ UHS Filter, Bisque MyT Mount, ASI Air Plus via Wi-Fi,
24 x 300 sec. sub exposures, 120 min total integration time.
From my backyard Observatory in Dayton, Ohio(bortle8) on 07-03-2023
DSS, Pixinsight, and Adobe Raw 2023.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
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