The Pelican Nebula, 1800 light years away.

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Wow! Incredible and beautiful with amazing colors of space and you can see so many stars! Excellent capture! What kind of telescope you used take this picture? Best, Tina

Tina,

Thanks for your kind comments. I describe in detail how I took this image, and what equipment I used at

https://blog.staadecker.com/2020/10/22/stalking-the-pelican/

 

If you have additional questions after that, please reach out.

Kind Regards,

Peter.

Miguel - thanks for taking time to comment.

Regards,

Peter.

Incredible. That something of these vast proportions can resemble a simple toss of talcum powder.

WOW!!

Bernardo - Thank you. :)

Philip - for some reason my thanks to you for your funny comment looks blank - so : thank you and :)

Hi Peter. These images from space have always fascinated me. Excellent picture! Kind Regards, Rosario.

Rosario - thank you. I'm not sure if my sub-title description is very visible, so at the risk of repeating: astronomy has changed and become easily accessible to non-astronomers. If you're motivated to do so, you could take photos like this too without special equipment. My description of how I was able to rent telescope time is at:

 

https://blog.staadecker.com/2020/10/22/stalking-the-pelican/

Very nice, a professional job of filter selection and compositing.

Thanks, Mike. I appreciate that.