The Jellyfish is easy to find as it is near an easily-visible star, Propus. Conditions are excellent tonight, but I had trouble balancing the scope. I'm trying 480-s subframes, as the 300 I used last year didn't seem long enough. CCD at 10 °C. I may want to process this more/differently later, but here's a first attempt.
In the revision, I just darkened the background to cut down some of the noise, and did not apply the "increase star color" action; I think there's already plenty of color without that.
Date: 25 Feb 2014
Subject: IC 443, Jellyfish Nebula
Scope: ST80+Antares 0.5x telereducer
Filter: Baader UHC-S
Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors), PIC controller
Guiding: 9x50 Finder/Guider + DSI Ic + PHD 2.2.1
Camera: DSI IIc (no chiller, T = 10-0 °C)
Acquisition: Nebulosity 3.2.0, no dither
Exposure: 12x480 s
Stacking: Neb 3, bad pixel map, bias included, normalize first, trans+rot align, 1.5 SD stack.
Processing: StarTools 1.3 Crop; Wipe: Color & Brightness; Develop 84.68%; Color:Scientific, 200%; HDR
ptimize; Contrast; Deconvolute 2.7 pix; Life:Moderate; Track 2.94%; Magic:Shrink 1. CS6 Astronomy Tools increase star color, AstroFrame.
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