Imperial Probe Droid Nebula (aka The Jellyfish Nebula) (IC 443/SH2-248) (estabrook)

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Imperial Probe Droid Nebula (aka The Jellyfish Nebula) (IC 443/SH2-248)

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Imperial Probe Droid Nebula (aka The Jellyfish Nebula) (IC 443/SH2-248)

Imperial Probe Droid Nebula (aka The Jellyfish Nebula)

I can't deny that this is one of those nebulae that looks like its traditional namesake. But to me it also bears a striking resemblance to the Imperial Probe Droid in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, hence my campaign to rename it.

I caught this ominous presence surveilling my backyard last night, and I decided to surveil it in return. I took 300 x 60 second sub-exposures before it retreated behind the house, and compiled the best 250 of them for this image--about 4.1 hours of integration. Although the subject could use more data, I was anxious to complete this image, my first project with my new Celestron AVX mount, before the Empire caught up with me.

(Captured: C6, AVX, Hyperstar, ASI183MC Pro, Optolong L-Enhance filter. Processed: Photoshop, Star Xterminator, Gradient Xterminator, and Topaz DeNoise AI.)

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Title: Reprocessed with PixInsight and Russell Croman's excellent new NoiseXterminator!

Description: Reprocessed with PixInsight and with Russell Croman's excellent new NoiseXterminator process (which vastly improved the noise). But I haven't yet learned how to minimize star halos in PixInsight, so I have chosen not to designate this version as "Final."

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Description: Reprocessed with PixInsight and Russ Croman's cool new BlurXterminator. PixInsight is wonderful, but I still haven't found a good way to use it to get rid of offensive giant star halos, so I exported the project to Photoshop to address that issue. Maybe Russ Croman's next project will be GiantHaloXterminator!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6944619
PixInsight job	ABADHR8LMGXXEPWLSORQGWLUWA3277MS
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h16m52s.84
RA (top/left)	06h21m50s.30
RA (top/right)	06h16m08s.70
RA (bottom/right)	06h11m57s.12
RA (bottom/left)	06h17m36s.68

Dec (center)	+22°35′47″.7
Dec (top/left)	+23°05′45″.8
Dec (top/right)	+23°49′52″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+22°05′12″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°21′35″.7

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