IC 5067 - Cosmic Mountains
This cosmic ridge line is found in the Pelican Nebula as part of a larger gas cloud in the constellation of Cygnus. The region is active with star formation and gases are swept and sculpted by powerful stellar winds, creating mountainous shapes from our Earthly view. Several distinct gas pillars are visible in the image, the result of more densely packed gas surviving the onslaught of stellar wind. These areas harbor protostars that have yet to break out of the tips of the pillars. The rightmost pillar near the center of the image displays a Herbig-Haro body - a bipolar outflow of high speed gases ejected from the poles of a newly forming star. The area is also populated with shock fronts (bow shocks) created when high speed gas collides with the surrounding medium,the resulting collision heats the gas to emission temperatures making an eerie crescent shaped glow. This nebula exists approximately 2000 light years from Earth and the mountainous area in the image is nearly 10 light years across.
Imaging telescope or lens:Stellarvue SV105 APO
Imaging camera:QSI 6120wsg-8
Mount:Orion Atlas EQ-G (belt mod) + EQDIR
Guiding camera:Starlight Xpress Loadestar 2
Focal reducer:Stellarvue 0.8X Reducer/Flattener
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, PixInsight , Photoshop CC, PhD Guiding 2
Resolution: 8440x5465
Dates: June 25 - July 12, 2018 (11 nights)
Astrodon HA - 3nm: 89x600" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon OIII 3 nm: 85x600" -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon SII 5nm: 92x600" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 44.3 hours
Darks: ~50
Flats: ~50
Bias: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 16.53 days
Avg. Moon phase: 83.35%
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