Object Description: Popularly known as the Pelican Nebula, this large mass of star clusters, gas nebulae, and ionization fronts lies just to the west of the North American Nebula NGC7000 and is part of the same huge emission gas cloud bisected by a large dark nebula.

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106N
Camera: Canon 40D modified w/ Baader UV/IR cut filter
Mount: ParamountME unguided
Filters: no filters

Date Taken: two nights 22AUG2008 and 23AUG2008
Location: Lot4, Arcturus Way, Sacramento Mountains Astronomy Park, Weed, NM
Sky Conditions: transparency 3/5, seeing 4/5, temp 20C
Image Acquisition: 62x300s, iso800, using CCDSoft-gbdtDSLR and CCDCommander

Image Processing: ImagesPlus 3.5 used for data reduction, alignment, MinMaxExc combine, initial DDP. PSCS2 used for levels, curves, and color enhancement.

Comments: There is a blue reflection nebula, to the southwest of the Pelican, that I have not been able to identify. I have emailed CBAT of the possibility of a new discovery. A cropped image of the nebula in question is below, only some noise reduction applied from original image above.