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NGC7000 - The North America Nebula Wide-field

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This wide-field image of the North America Nebula region shows the North America Nebula, the Pelican Nebula, several other smaller nebula, and a huge number of stars. Located in Cygnus, the nebula is an emission nebula located near Deneb, the tail of the Swan.

This image was consists of 30 300s exposures with a Canon T4i and 200mm EF-L lens at f/4.

Resolution ........ 4.570 arcsec/pix
Rotation .......... 91.051 deg
Focal ............. 203.12 mm
Pixel size ........ 4.50 um
Field of view ..... 6d 30' 42.1" x 4d 16' 30.4"
Image center ...... RA: 20 56 10.420  Dec: +44 03 40.25