SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Rod Pommier
Location of Photo:
Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA
Date/Time of photo:
2024-07-10 through 2024-07-11
Equipment:
PlaneWave CDK17 on L500 mount, SBIG STL 11000 CCD camera with Baader Planetarium H-alpha, R, G, and B filters
Description:
This image shows the northern part of The Pelican Nebula, IC 5070 in Cygnus. At right ishe an elephant trunk carved by stellar winds of a nearby bright star where formation of a low mass protostar is occurring in the trunk's tip. The protostar's spinning accretion disk causes material to flow out from opposite sides of the center of the disk in directions perpendicular to its plane in highly collimated into jets. These jets can be seen as delicate tendrils projecting from the tip of the elephant trunk. The jets are bowed back along the axis of the trunk by the same stellar wind that carved the trunk. This object is Herbig-Haro (HH) 555. HH 563, 564, and 565 are also in the image.
