Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2403
NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan
NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project
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NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project

NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan
NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project
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NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project

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Description

Edit (June 3, 2018): I went after this one for a second time in the fall of 2017 while I was waiting for my refractor to be replaced but I didn't capture enough data to create an acceptable image. I discovered a few additional techniques for selective noise reduction while processing the Cat's Eye Nebula and decided to give it another shot. It's markedly better than the image from November of 2016 (which I never took off my wall), but since it is still unfinished, noisy and flawed, I didn't think it deserved to be published separately. The equipment for both attempts (almost exactly a year apart) was identical.

Revisions A, B and C:

Dates: Nov. 16, 2016

Frames: 70x300"

Integration: 5.8 hours

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Revisions

    NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan
    Original
    NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan
    B
    NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan
    C
  • Final
    NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan
    D

B

Description: Restacked with a different set of flats to see if it helped the noise at all.

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C

Description: High pass overlay.

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D

Description: Second attempt one year later. Unfortunately, I was not able to get enough subs to make a good image out of it. For galaxies under Bortle 8 skies, I need at least 10-20 hours at f/3.9.

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NGC 2403 - An Unfinished Project, Chris Sullivan

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