IC 5070
Pelican Nebula in Cygnus

10.1″ f/4.5, Mallincam DS432cTEC with 0.5 focal reducer and Astronomik UHC filter
Exposure = 10-15-20-25 sec, Live Stacked frames = 20-20-20-20 (80 total), Gain = 50 of 250

The Pelican Nebula is a large 1.5 degree-wide structure that is just off the eastern “coast” of the North America Nebula, which is off the left edge of this field of view. Seen here, the “head” of the Pelican is pointed straight up, with the beak and neck curving down in a red-orange cascading nebular structure that is about 10 light years in length, which itself is labeled IC 5067. There are many dark rifts and patches along this stretch, clouds of cool gas and dust that punctuate the brighter lit regions of hydrogen (red), sulfur (orange), and oxygen (blue-green). In some ways those cuts of darkness kind of look similar to a complex coastline of fjords. The two bright stars at the lower left and right corners of the image (having halos, optical artifacts of the Astronomik UHC filter) are 57 Cygni and 56 Cygni, magnitudes 4.8 and 5.1 respectively. The Pelican is about 2000 light years away.

North at 11 o’clock, East at 8 o’clock