LBN 902 Area, SHO (Stephen Garretson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: B39 · HD259982 · HD260016 · HD260145 · HD260146 · HD260180 · HD260181 · HD260281 · HD260358 · HD260412 · HD260413 · HD260503 · HD260530 · HD260594 · HD260595 · HD260664 · HD260665 · HD260759 · HD260792 · HD260821 · HD260859 · HD260931 · HD260984 · HD260985 · HD261014 · HD261050 · HD261051 · HD261052 · HD261053 · HD261083 · And 20 more.

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This is an area "above" the Cone Nebula that has always fascinated me. The original image was too dark and needed work that I had neither the skills or tools to do at the time; hence an attempt to redo it. This action was inspired by my colleague Marty Butley who recently shared his evolution of shots of the whole Cone/Fox Fur/Christmas Tree area.

This is an image originally composed in the spring of 2021 using an ASI 1600MM and a set of Baader narrowband filters, but not very small bandwidths. The original data was lost in a computer crash and the portable drive on which it was transferred from the observatory to my processing desktop is no longer willing to cough it up. Thus I was working from a download from my Google Drive file. I applied BlurXterminator, StarXterminator, the tool the nostars image into Mac OS Photos; back to PixInsight for some more work including toning down the stars significantly.

[36] guided 300s Ha subs
[26] 300s OIII subs
[24] 300s SII subs
total integration: 7 hours, 10 minutes

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William Optics FLT 132 APO with William Optics 0.8x r/f [shoots at f/5.6]
ASI 1600 MM
Baader filters
Starizona MicroTouch Focus Motor Syatem
Paramount MX+

TheSkyX, SGP, PHD2
PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise, Preview

from the Beevo Dome

The refractors!

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8998470
PixInsight job	FR9ZTB3S736R3PPP6NEPHJI34ZOXJQGN
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h37m03s.60
RA (top/left)	06h34m49s.43
RA (top/right)	06h35m07s.41
RA (bottom/right)	06h39m16s.13
RA (bottom/left)	06h38m59s.50

Dec (center)	+10°39′18″.1
Dec (top/left)	+11°17′53″.7
Dec (top/right)	+09°57′16″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+10°00′39″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+11°21′14″.2

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