IC 5070- The Pelican Nebula

IC 5070 - The Pelican Nebula, an emission nebula of intensely active star formation, lies in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan). The Pelican Nebula is about 1,800 light-years away from earth and is about 30 light-years across.
For a size comparison, our entire solar system is only about 13 light-hours across.
The second image in black-and-white focuses in on a region of intense star formation including twin jets of partially ionized Hydrogen gas emanating from the tip of the dark tendril know as a Herbig-Haro object which is the telltale sign of a protostar.

Image acquisition and processing information: (for the HaRGB image):

Date: July 25th, 2015
Telescope: Celestron C11 telescope using a Hyperstar v3 lens
Mount: Celestron CGE Pro
Camera: QHY 9 M Mono CCD camera equipped with a 2" five position filter wheel
Image acquisition software: Maxim DL
Exposures: 12 three-minute exposrues binned 2x2 using a Baader high speed narrow-band Ha filter and 10 one-minute exposures each unbinned using red, green and blue filters
Guiding: Telescope: AstroTech AT72ED, Camera: Starlight Xpress Trius Pro 814 CCD, Software: Maxim DL
Image processing Software: PixInsight v. 1.8.4

Image acquisition and processing information: (for the Ha image):

Date: June 20th 2020
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 14" telescope using a Hyperstar v3 lens
Mount: Celestron CGE Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI-183 MM Pro monochrome camera equipped with a Baader UFC 2" Filter Slider
Image acquisition software: Sequence Generator Pro v. 3.0.3.169
Exposures: 24 three-minute exposures binned 2x2 using a Baader high speed narrow-band Ha filter
Guiding: Telescope: AstroTech AT72ED, Camera: Starlight Xpress Trius Pro 814 CCD, Software: PhD2
Image processing Software: PixInsight v. 1.8.5