Instrument

12.5" RCOS @  ~f/9 (2880 mm fl) 0.64 arcsec / pixel.  The Zoomify image scale is 1.41 to 3.39 arcsec / pixel.

Mount

Paramount ME

Camera

SBIG STL-11000 w/ internal filter wheel, AstroDon 6nm Ha Filter

Acquisition Data

7/19/2011 to 10/7/2011 Chino Valley, AZ... with CCDAutoPilot3 & CCDSoft.  AOL guided

Exposure

Hα    390 min. (13 x 30 min. bin 1x1)

Click here for the RGB color image.

Click here for narrow band color mapped images.

Software

• CCDSoft, CCDStack, Photoshop CS and Noel Carboni's actions.

• PixFix32 (pre-beta) to repair column defects.

• CCDStack to calibrate, register, normalize, data reject, combine the sub exposures.

• PhotoShop on-linear stretching.

• Noiseware Pro, a PhotoShop plug-in.

North is to the right.

IC 5067 is the elephant trunk region of the Pelican Nebula, which also includes IC 5070. This HII region is located in the Cygnus constellation, at a distance of about 2,000 light-years.

This image, taken with an Ha filter, shows the overall dominance of ionized hydrogen gas.