The neck of the Pelican
(IC 5067 )
This image was inspired by a beautiful image recently posted by Wolfgang Promper on his site, http://www.astro-pics.com/. My image is certainly not recognizable as the neck of anything, but the nebula that contains this H-alpha region does definitely look like a pelican – see this image. Unfortunately, the seeing was poor again. I will try to add some H-alpha exposure in the near future.
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Date |
2004-08-10 |
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Scope |
Astro-Physics 130 EDF, f6, on A-P GTO 1200 mount; SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera; internal guide chip. MaxIm 4.03 camera control. |
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Exposure |
R as luminance + RGB tricolor; 5 x 10 min red; 5 x 10 min green; 5 x 10 min blue. Flat and dark calibrated. |
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Processing |
Levels and curves and some sharpening applied in Photoshop CS. Noise reduction and sharpening with Kodak GEM Pro plug-in. |
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