This 10° wide field image is centred on the NGC 7000 North American Nebula, but also features the Pelican Nebula just to the right of NGC 7000. The bright star is Deneb.
ImagingCamera: Hutech-modified Canon XTi dSLR
Lens: Canon 70-200mm L zoom operating at 98mm f/5.6
Exposures: 40 x 60 secs
ISO: 800
Mount: Astrotrac portable equatorial on Manfrotto tripod
Image acquisition: ImagesPlus
Processing- Canon ZoomBrowser EX - convert RAW to 48 bit TIFF - Custom white balance, Neutral picture style.
- ImagesPlus - calibrate using dark & flat frames, auto align (correlate, translate, rotate), stack images using Average combine (BP 2537, BG 62).
- Corel PhotoPaint X3 - convert to 24 bit RGB jpg, moderate increase to midtone saturation.