Image by Matt Thomas details below

 

The Head of the Pelican Nebula.

Image Data

* Exposure: [SII] Ha [OIII]
o All exposures binned 1x1
o [SII] 30x1200s, Ha 14x1200s, [OIII] 28x1200s - 24 hours total!
o Hubble Telescope Color Pallet: Red=[SII], Green=Ha, Blue=[OIII]
* Telescope: Stellarvue SV152 @ f/7.9
* Mount: MI-250 GoTo
* Camera: SBIG ST-10XME CCD, SBIG CFW-10
o AstroDon E-Series TruBalance Filters
* Location: Casa Cielo Observatory, Santa Barbara, CA
* Date/Time:
o August 11/12 2006, 21:36-05:07 PDT
o August 12/13 2006, 21:36-05:02 PDT
o August 13/14 2006, 21:36-01:35 PDT
o August 14/15 2006, 21:35-05:16 PDT
* Processing: Taken in CCDSoft v5 using CCD Commander. Reduced, aligned, and combined sub-exposures for each channel in CCDStack. Stretching (curves), color combine, selective bluring, and selective unsharp mask in Photoshop.

 

 

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