Narrow Band Pelican Nebula

I used a 4.5nm Custom Scientific HA filter to image the Pelican,IC 5070. This narrow band
filter delivers excellent contrast from my light polluted, moonlit SF Bay Area Yard.
See it (the Pelican, not my yard)at

http://www.pbase.com/steelnavy/image/81450392

I generated a "color" version by imaging the Pelican through an OIII filter and using the result
for the G and B channels. So the resulting LRGB image consists of HA, HA, OIII, OIII. The image
is at http://www.pbase.com/steelnavy/image/81450423/large

Rob Mackie

Rob,

That's a fine start on the Pelican there! I would recommend going with longer subs (20 minutes) and of course long total imaging times. You might be able to stretch your data a bit more with curves. I haven't checked it yet in PS, but I think there's some more stuff hiding in there. Nitce bi-color pic, too!

Eric