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LDN 1266 in SHO, Robert H. Kutner
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LDN 1266 in SHO

LDN 1266 in SHO, Robert H. Kutner
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LDN 1266 in SHO

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Description

This is a choice sample crop from a 4 panel mosaic of the Sharpless 171 region taken with a ASI294MM Pro using Ha, Sii, & Oiii 6nm Max FR 2" Astronomik filters on a RASA 8 mounted to a CEM40-NUNC mount furnished with a NUNC mini computer for data acquisition.

NINA to acquire 4 sets, 1 set for each panel, 30 to 60 x 300s images  @ -10c & 120g, 1x1 bin. ~95% were usable for Ha and Oiii, only ~50% were fit from the Sii filter.

Blink / Subframe Select, Calibrated (100 Dark, 60 Flat, 100 Bias), Star Aligned all images with PixInsight. Used the Normalized Scale Gradient for integration.  

DBE each frame, Star Aligned with Mosaic Union to generate template for Star Alignment, both panels were 'matched' images to template.  Registered panels were dnaLinearfit prior to GMM. Repeated the Mosaic Union to GMM to combine the 2 panel mosaics for a 4 panel mosaic of each channel.

For Ha, Sii, & Oiii channels: Cropped, DBE, TGV, MMT (& duplicated the Ha here for the Lum), EZ Soft Stretch, StarNet for star removal, and channel combined using PixelMath*. The duplicated Ha -> Lum was Mask Stretched, HDR, LHT, MMT, EZStar Reduction, TGVDenoise, and LRGB Combined with the PixelMath SHO image.

Image was Curves modified w/ masks, Resampled, and Annotated.

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R- Oiii*Sii + ~Oiii*(.1*Sii+.9*Ha)
G- Ha*(0.7*Ha+0.3*Oiii) + ~Ha*Oiii
B- Oiii*Oiii + ~Oiii*(.3*Sii+.7*Oiii)

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LDN 1266 in SHO, Robert H. Kutner