{"id":676714,"date":"2026-11-06T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676714\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:20:12","slug":"the-sky-today-on-friday-november-6-nab-the-north-america-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676714\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Today on Friday, November 6: Nab the North America Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBack to Article List\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tGlowing near bright Deneb in Cygnus the Swan, the North America Nebula is an excellent target under dark skies tonight.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/noao-n7000mosblock.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Photograph of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and the neighboring Pelican Nebula, a broad region of glowing pink-red hydrogen gas threaded with dark, jagged dust clouds. The larger pink nebula fills the left half of the frame, and the Pelican\u2019s pink, wing-like ridge rises at center right beside a dark, star-speckled lane. A dense field of white, blue, and orange stars covers the entire frame, with a very bright blue-white star with diffraction spikes at the right edge.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe North America Nebula (NGC 7000; left) is a great small scope target, named for its resemblance to the continent of North America. To its west (right) is the smaller Pelican Nebula (IC 5067\/5070). Credit: KPNO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA\/Adam Block\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/the-sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-from-october-30-to-november-6-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky This Week<\/a>\u00a0column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">November 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/observing\/the-sky-today-thursday-november-5-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smoke out the Southern Cigar<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">As fall gets into full swing, we are seeing less of the summertime stars. By 6 P.M. local time, the Summer Triangle \u2014 which flies high overhead on short summer nights \u2014 is now starting to set in the west. Lowest of its three points is Vega in Lyra; to Vega\u2019s upper left is Altair in Aquila, while Deneb in Cygnus is almost directly above Vega and the highest of the three.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no Moon in the sky, let\u2019s use Deneb to find a favorite deep-sky object: NGC 7000, the North America Nebula. It\u2019s a great small scope target, and its location just 3\u00b0 east of Deneb makes it easy to center in the eyepiece. However, this huge emission nebula stretches about 2\u00b0 across, so note that it requires a larger field of view to capture all in one go. It definitely benefits from a nebula filter if you have one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the sky, the nebula\u2019s western side looks like the eastern coast of the continent for which it is named, and vice versa. The curve that mimics the Gulf of Mexico is particularly prominent, so start there if you\u2019re having trouble seeing the shape. Look also to NGC 7000\u2019s west \u2014 across a dark gulf, you\u2019ll see a fainter, more compact patch of nebulosity. This is IC 5067\/5070, also known as the Pelican Nebula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunrise: 6:35 A.M.<br \/>Sunset: 4:52 P.M.<br \/>Moonrise: 3:56 A.M.<br \/>Moonset: 3:16 P.M.<br \/>Moon Phase: Waning crescent (5%)<br \/>*Times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset are given in local time from 40\u00b0 N 90\u00b0 W. The Moon\u2019s illumination is given at 10 P.M. local time from the same location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alison Klesman\u00a0is senior editor of\u00a0Astronomy\u00a0magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and has studied a variety of topics, from minor planets to supermassive black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to Article List Glowing near bright Deneb in Cygnus the Swan, the North America Nebula is an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,7882,82,44123],"class_list":["post-676714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-observing","tag-science","tag-sky-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}