NGC7000 - False America: A Nebula in Cygnus dressed with False Color (Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 62 Cyg · NGC 6989 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · North America Nebula · The star 57 Cyg · The star 60 Cyg · The star ξ Cyg

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NGC7000 - False America: A Nebula in Cygnus dressed with False Color

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NGC7000 - False America: A Nebula in Cygnus dressed with False Color

Astronomers call her by different names such as NGC7000 or Caldwell20, but we commoners know her just by the North America nebula, who sits in the tail of the Cygnus constellation, near by the star Deneb and in the same neighborhood as the Pelican nebula.
This large star nursery rich in ionized HII, in fact, one of the biggests visible on the northern hemisphere, counts with a distance measure by the Gaia telescope in 2020 of 90 light years, at a distance of 1,600 light years from Earth.
It's one of my favorite nebulas mainly because if your using the right filters and post-processing tools, you'll see in color the separation of the different gases such as Hydrogen, Oxygen, sulphur and even the dark dust clouds of the region. I've became obcessed with this nebula and narrowband mapped system, known as Hubble Palette or False Color after I came across with a image taken of this region by a fellow countryman and colegue.
For me, it's my masterpiece of 2023 because I've achieved my goal!

2h57min = 59 x 300s (Astronomik 6nm SII) - F/5.6 - Gain 139 - Bin 1x1 - Offset 50 - Focal Lengh 300mm
4h36min = 92 x 300s (Astronomik 6nm Ha) - F/5.6 - Gain 139 - Bin 1x1 - Offset 50 - Focal Lengh 300mm
3h51min = 77 x 300s (Astronomik 6nm OIII) - F/5.6 - Gain 139 - Bin 1x1 - Offset 50 - Focal Lengh 300mm

50 Dark Frames + 200 Flats Frames + 50 BIAS Frames + 200 Dark Flat Frames

The Moon was in the first night of acquisition, in the Waning Crescent phase at 34.62% of ilumination, in a Bortle scale of 4 (21.63 Mag/Arc.Sec).

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