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Target

IC 5070 — The Pelican Nebula

Frame / Rev
006 / A
Integration
9h 50m
IC 5070 — The Pelican Nebula
SHO · 7nmRedCat 51 WIFDQHY Minicam8M (IMX585) · 2.39″/px
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Catalog
IC 5070
Class
Emission nebula
Constellation
Cygnus
Distance
1,800 ly
Coordinates
RA 20h 55m 40s · Dec +44° 01′23″
Palette
SHO
Sessions
2 nights · Aug 2025
Sky
Bortle 9

Target & processing

Eighteen hundred years ago this light left a bird made of hydrogen. It stands in profile against the Cygnus dark, its beak of dust turned toward a gulf of nothing, the same black river that separates it from a continent-shaped neighbor, both of them shores of one drowned cloud.

My first target with multi-sessions acquisition (with an astro camera).

Per-filter integration

28.8% · 2h 50mSII 35.6% · 3h 30mOIII 35.6% · 3h 30m
Hα 7nm
2h 50m
OIII 7nm
3h 30m
SII 7nm
3h 30m
KeptRejected at integration
Equipment
Optics
William Optics RedCat 51 · 250mm f/4.9
Camera
QHY MiniCam8M · IMX585 · 2.9µm / px
Filters
XiMei 7nm Hα / OIII / SII + XiMei Broadband R / G / B
Mount
ZWO AM3 harmonic, no counterweight
Guiding
Uniguide 32mm + ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Control
Mele Quieter 4C · NINA + PHD2
Site
Montréal, QC · Bortle 9 · 45.5° N
Adjacent frames
NGC 7380
NGC 7380
Aug 2025 · 13h 10m
NGC 281
NGC 281
Aug 2025 · 8h 55m
IC 63
IC 63
Jul 2025 · 2h 55m
NGC 6960
NGC 6960
Jul 2025 · 4h 25m