The Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)

The Pelican Nebula is located in the constellation of Cygnus - a bird in a bird. Thanks to the magic of 3nm narrowband filters it is still possible to capture deep sky objects whilst up against Bortle 8 city light pollution, zero astronomical darkness and a near full moon. But it did take fifteen nights and 27.5 hrs of exposures, dodging between clouds and jumping into the limited windows of near darkness. Due to the poor data I found this very hard to process, running through numerous iterations before being kind of happy with the final version.

Ha 152 x 300

OIII 64 x 300

SII 109 x 300

RGB for the stars: 20x20 each filter

Total exposure 27hrs 25mins

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