Here's one of the first images I've captured in nearly 8 months - we finally had good weather and a new moon at the same time. This is the first real chance I've had to do any astrophotography since last Thanksgiving.

The Pelican Nebula is about 1800 light years from Earth, located in the constellation Cygnus and not far from the bright star Deneb. You can also see a portion of the North American Nebula at the upper left edge of the frame. This image consists of a composite of 12 individual exposures, each 8 minutes long, which were digitally combined and processed to yield essentially the same data as a single 96 minute exposure.

Capture / Processing Details:
12 x 480s / flats / bias
Scope: Megrez 90 / 0.8x FR/FF III
Camera: QHY8
Mount: Celestron CGE
Guided with PHD Guiding and KWIQ-Guider camera/guidescope combo. Captured with Nebulosity 2 (Gain 3, Offset 55). Bad pixel mapping in Nebulosity, then stacked with DeepSky Stacker. The bulk of the processing was in Photoshop CS4 using Carboni's Astronomy Tools actions.