PelicanLSHO

The Pelican Nebula in SHO with the Hubble Palette. I am taking a very long mosaic of M8/M20 for the first time but I am only getting 2-3 hours on that target a night due to trees. So I have been switching to other targets for the middle of the night. This is what I love about Sequence Generator Pro. The Pelican was the 2nd target that I have taken while completing my albatross in Sagittarius.

The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The gaseous contortions of this emission nebula bear a resemblance to a pelican, giving rise to its name. For the Hubble Palette, I rotated 180 degrees to enhance the view of the dust clouds. The Pelican Nebula is located nearby first magnitude star Deneb, and is divided from its more prominent neighbor, the North America Nebula, by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust.

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. Particularly dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain, and among these are found two jets emitted from the Herbig–Haro object 555.