NGC 7000 - North America and the Pelican (HaLRGB)
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North America and the Pelican in HaLRGB — winner of Best Deep Sky Photograph at the 2004 Texas Star Party. A more recent 2006 version and a plain LRGB version are also on file.
Location: Texas Star Party 2004 near Ft. Davis, Texas (RGB) and Eldorado Star Party 2004 near Eldorado, Texas (Luminance)
Date: May 17, 2004 (RGB) and October 15, 2004 (Luminance)
Scope/mount: Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/5 and Tak NJP mount
Camera: SBIG STL-6303E, self-guided
Filter: Custom Scientific 4.5nm Hydrogen-alpha filter
Exposure Info: HaLRGB image - 120:30:30:30:10 minutes (10 min. subexposures, all unbinned)
Processing Info: Dark frame calibration (no flats), de-blooming, registration, and Sigma combine of all channels in MaxIm 4.0. Digital-Development in Images Plus (RGB) and MaxIm 4 (Luminance). Blending of final data, Levels, Curves, and color balance in Photoshop CS.
Processing Note: Original LRGB used as RGB for color information. Ha information blended 50% with Red layer in RGB set. Ha information used as luminance at 100%. Blue and Green information attenuated to allow for full luminance blend (for star halo reduction).
Awards/Publications: This image won the BEST DEEP SKY PHOTOGRAPH at the 2004 Texas Star Party.
- What it is
- NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, is a large emission nebula whose shape resembles the North American continent; part of the same star-forming cloud as the neighboring Pelican Nebula (IC 5070).
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Distance
- ~2,590 light-years
- Apparent magnitude
- ~4
- Angular size
- ~120 × 100 arcminutes
- Coordinates
- RA 20h 59m 17s, Dec +44° 31′
This summary was generated by an AI assistant from general astronomical references, not from Jay's own notes on this specific image. Treat every detail above as a starting point for research, not settled fact.