A Sharpless Festival - Sh2-146, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161 and 162 with several NGCs, LBNs, LDNs, one vdB and M52 (Uwe Deutermann)

A Sharpless Festival - Sh2-146, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161 and 162 with several NGCs, LBNs, LDNs, one vdB and M52

Revision title: Call me crazy ... all 4 attempts from the last image added together, each 25% ...

I dared this area again, had to, to see if one can make this better than my last trials (one of them I did not even post). And well, this area is a nutcracker, no matter which color assignments I used, it just does not get to where I wanted to be. I have seen many other trials and yes, certainly not alone, for some reason there is one thing missing that would make this area shine like a diamond, now it is more a piece of coal 😂😂😂, need desperately some pressure here 😊😊😊.

On the other hand, this wide field with no crop at all (pure 6200 size 😊👍) has a smorgasbord of Sharpless objects in it, did not realize that all of them are that close together. Closeups are always encouraged by this frame.

I added a different color variant as Version C, could not decide if this one was looking nicer or not, so I decided to overlay the plate solve in this color, so having both of "best" worlds.

Special offer: since I strongly believe that one can present this area better than I did, I will pass to anybody who wants to give this a try the link to the 3 stacked SHO channels. Would love to see someone else try, and further discussions afterward to learn from each other would be more than welcome! Just send me a message.

Carpe noctem!!

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Title: Processing Collaboration with Pete, Simon, Andreas and Paul

Description: I offered for everybody to get the original stacked files and 4 people decided to give it a try: Pete, Simon, Andreas and Paul. After everybody was finished working on the data, we exchanged the results. This was just great to see the different approaches and techniques. Everybody was so nice to pass the different steps that were taken, I myself learned a lot and enjoyed the conversations. Our busy work life does not give us a lot of time, nevertheless everybody spent quite some time to explain.
THIS is what AB is all about! A wonderful and great experience that I will cherish for a long time!
Thanks to all of you guys!!
P.S.: Simon could not find his original image anymore, hence I could not post his image, sorry Simon!

Add: Star Aligned last image since it just did not look perfect to me 😊

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Title: Call me crazy ... all 4 attempts from the last image added together, each 25% ...

Description: ... and it looks quite good 😊😊😊.

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3nm Narrowbanding filters
Sharpless2 Objects
ASI 6200 MM Pro
Astrophotography from home
Florida / Georgia Imagers
Askar Telescopes
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Emission Nebula

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