The Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) is and emission nebula close to the North American Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It is so named due to its resemblance to the head of a pelican. It is about 1800 light years away and a very active star formation region.

This image was made with a Nikon Z7II and a Nikon 600mm f/6.3 PF lens. A total of 107 30-second images were taken at ISO6400 for a total exposure time of 53.5 minutes. Star tracking was done with a Fornax LighTack II. The raw images were converted to TIF using RawTherapee, which were then aligned using Deep Sky Stacker. The star aligned images were then stacked using sigma clipped averaging on program astro-sca. The stacked image was then stretched and color corrected using astro-color-stretch. Both astro-sca and astro-color-stretch are Python programs and are available here in the astrophotography software downloads page.