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Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1), Scott Denning
Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1)
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Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1)

Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1), Scott Denning
Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1)
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Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1)

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Description

Crab Nebula (M1, Supernova 1074 remnant) October-November 2019

Narrowband composite imaged at FL=1510 with ASI 1600 & ZWO filters on C8 EdgeHD @f7

Ha 64x300s ; O3 44x300s ; S2 52x300s for 13.3 hours total exposure

(Most subs with taken with a big moon in the sky!)

Followed Chris Foster’s excellent PixInsight processing workflow

Very aggressive subframe selection to reject poorly focused & tracked subs

Calibrated w/ master dark and master(flat minus flat-dark)

Cosmetic corrected

Subframe selected and weighted for focus, elongation, and SNR

Aligned

Integrated with linear fit rejection

MUREDenoise on each master in linear state

Deconvolution of each master in linear state

Linear fit O3 and S2 to Ha master

Color combined R=Ha ; Y=S2 ; B=O3 (very careful with weights!)

Actual color weights in PixelMath:

R = 0.5 * Ha + 0.5 * S2

G = 0.5 * S2 + 0.5 * O3

B = O3

Histogram stretch by hand

Gentle TGV Denoise of nonlinear image

Fairly aggressive MLT sharpening

Curves transformation and sat boost

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Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (M1), Scott Denning