Pelican Nebula Astrophotography (IC5070 and IC5067)

“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.

His beak can hold more than his belly can.

He can hold in his beak

Enough food for a week!

But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”

― Dixon Lanier Merritt

Pelican Nebula Astrophotography without telescope taken Canon 60Da, iOptron skytracker, EF200mm f/2.8L II USM, f/4.0; ISO 6400, Deep Sky Stacker 144 images x 20 sec

Pelican Nebula Astrophotography IC5070 and IC5067

Pelican Nebula (IC5070 and IC5067) - really looks like a pelican!  Compare it with photo of an real pelican! 

Pelican

For comparison I show also smaller set of image  Canon 60Da, EF200mm f/2.8L II USM, f/4.0; ISO 6400, Deep Sky Stacker 29 images x 20 sec

Pelican Nebula Canon60Da iOptron SkyTracker EF200mm f2.8 L II USM_Astrophotography

Pelican Nebula is an active star-forming region, located in Cygnus constellation near North American Nebula.

Northern America nebula and Pelican Nebula and Deneb Star

Sky location of Pelican Nebula see on my collage 

Pelican Nebula, Sky Location Milky Way and real Pelican Collage

NGC7000 North America Nebula with Tripod

NGC7000 North America Nebula, Pelican Nebula,  Elephant's Trunk nebula, Cygnus Milky Way,  Deneb - Wide field astro photo with a tripod

CAMERA: Canon 40D
OPTIC: Canon 16-35mm f 2.8 L II USM
MOUNT: Tripod
EXPOSURE: 40 X 30 sec. (Total: 20 min)
PROCESSING: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop

NGC7000 North America Nebula, Pelican Nebula,  Elephant's Trunk nebula, Cygnus Milky Way,  Deneb - Wide field astrophoto with a tripod, Astrophotography

 All single photos for this image were taken April 11-12 during meteor shower. I used wide angle camera 108 degrees and tripod. I think it is good configuration to catch meteors. Indeed, I got some meteors, but also I have a lot of just single images without meteor. So I tried to see what I can do to stack all this images to one. For 5 min I got wider field, but for 20 min (40 images) with static tripod sky I my final image had not so big size and I tried to focus only small part of sky like North America nebula. This part of sky is very rich. So some other nebulae are visible on this image.

Notation - NGC7000 North America Nebula, Astrophotography