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North American and
Pelican Nebula Widefield

Camera

Canon 20Da

Date 8/15/06
Description North American and Pelican Nebula wide field view. You can see this area if you look straight up around 10p.m. in mid August. The bright star on the right is Deneb. How many stars do you think are visible in this picture. I haven't counted them but ...
Processing This is a wider view of North American Nebula. Shot with the Canon 70-200mm F4.0L lens at 70mm for 4.5 Minutes. This is a combination of 8 pictures, using the Median combine function in Images Plus and with a dark frame subtracted.