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The North America Nebula (also known as NGC7000) is a H II star forming region close to Deneb the brightest star in the constellation of Cygnus.

read more on Wikipedia here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America_Nebula

Exposure Details:

Optics: William Optics flt110 at F5.2
Camera: Starlightxpress SXVFH16
Guiding: Lodestar and off axis guider
Mount: AP900gto3
Filters: Badeer Ha, OIII and SII narrowband filters
Acquisition: CCDautopilot v5, The Sky 6 and Maxim DL5
Processing: Aligned and stacked in Maxim DL5, post processing in PixInsight and Photoshop CS3.

Sub exposures
30 x 20 min Ha
20 x 20 min OIII binned 2x2
20 x 20 min SII binned 2x2

11 flat frames per channel and 18 dark frames
Hubble (SHO) palette
Hubble (SHO) palette		 Ha
Ha		 Natural tones
"Natural tones"

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