Saturday 27 August 2016

The Pelican Nebula (IC5070 & IC5067)

The Pelican Nebula taken this morning. Its 1800 light years away and 22 light years across in the constellation of Cygnus. Millions of years from now this enormous, hot, gas cloud will look completely different from the way it looks now. I wonder what it will look like then?
13 x 240 second exposures (52 minutes). 20 of each darks, Bias and Flat frames.
Equipment :
* Sky-Watcher Evostar-80ED DS PRO telescope with 0.85 focal reducer.
* Modified Canon 40D with Astonomik CLS light pollution filter.
* Sky-Watcher ST80 Guide scope & ZWOASI120mc camera.
* DIY Dew heaters and DIY Controller with dew sensor.
* Sky-Watcher HEQ5 PRO SynScan mount.
* EQASCOM software for remote mount control.
* Backyard EOS imaging software.
* Stellarium Scope & Stellarium software for Scope control  .
* PHD Guiding, Guiding Software
* Team Viewer to enable sitting indoors with you feet up!!

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