IC 5067-5070 "The Pelican Nebula" - In Cygnus
Herbig-Haro 555




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Imaging Details:
Imaging Date:   July 7th, 2005
Imaging Site:   ARGO, Oregon - USA
Seeing Conditions:   Excellent
Telescope:   Celestron C-14 @ F11.4 (3975mm)
Imaging Camera:   ST-10XME w/CFW-8A
Exposure:   Luminance 20x600 seconds (Binned 1x1), RGB - 8x300s, 16x300s, 23x300sec (Binned 2x2)
Mount & Guiding:   AP-1200GTO, On Camera Guiding
Processing Notes:   MaxIm DL/CCD - Luminance and RGB dark subtracted, sum combined, and gamma stretched. DDP then performed on the RGB combined channel
Photoshop - LRGB Combined. Curves on Luminance and RGB channels,. Slight unsharp mask sharpening on Luminance channel and slight gaussian blur performed on the RGB channels.


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