PacMan NGC281 in Hubble (Linwood Ferguson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1590 · LBN 615 · LBN 616 · NGC 281 · Sh2-184

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PacMan NGC281 in Hubble

Around college years I wasted many an hour on PacMan (the game), so it is only fair to spend some time now, on PacMan, hopefully with a bit more to show from it. This is about 34 hours with a C11 (at F7) in Hubble Pallet. It is one of the few I have done with the focal reducer, and continue to struggle with star shapes in the corner (so do not look too closely there!). I did a pretty standard Hubble pallet combine, then put in Ha as a synthetic luminance to add a bit of contrast. The only sharpening added was DeConvolution (va Dark's EZ Decon), with Topaz Denoise taking out a bit of color noise.

This was taken between 10/14/2021 and 11/24/2021, in bits and pieces as weather permitted (note in the data below it was far too tedious to enter each session so everything shows as 11/24).

I would welcome criticism and suggestions.

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RA (center)	00h52m41s.983
RA (top/left)	00h52m16s.360
RA (top/right)	00h56m54s.280
RA (bottom/right)	00h53m08s.277
RA (bottom/left)	00h48m32s.144

Dec (center)	+56°39′15″.94
Dec (top/left)	+56°03′22″.43
Dec (top/right)	+56°49′31″.74
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°15′11″.48
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°28′32″.56

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