North America Nebula (NGC 7000) by Peter Campbell-Burns

Peter Campbell-Burns — By pcburns on September 13, 2009 at 6:54 pm

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000, also Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It is so called because seen in full its shape resembles the continent of North America). Its surface brightness is very low and so NGC 7000 cannot normally be seen with the naked eye, binoculars or even small telescopes.

North America Nebula (NGC 7000) - click top enlarge

Imaged using an EQ6 Pro mounted Takahashi FSQ-106ED and QSI 583 CCD (autoguided by a Starlight Xpress Lodestar). The image comprises 11 frames x 240 seconds Luminosity (Hydrogen Alpha) with 4 frames x 240 seconds in Red, Green and Blue. The image was processed using Astroart 4.0