NGC 6826 " The Blinking Pn in Cygnus." (Pat Rodgers)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: Blinking planetary · NGC 6826 · PK083+12.1

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NGC 6826 " The Blinking Pn in Cygnus."

I'm down to 2 1/2 hours of nautical darkness now. So after 10 straight nights of cloud it was pleasing to get some subs. The plan was to get the 600s subs during the darkest period, alas the clouds rolled back in during the second one. So this image is HDR composition of the RGB 180s and 5s.

The outer halo shows up in the G and B stacks. It was very strong in the single OIII 600s sub. So would be a good subject for both RGB and NB imagers.

This is as hard to process as the Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543. As any stretching just blows the core as you can see in Image A:

Also the core is so bright it makes diffraction spikes from the spider veins.

Image B: Is 60x5s OIII for the core details. The intension was to add these to the OIII 600 for a luminance.

Image C: Is the RGB 24:24:36x5s core. This had to be stretched enough so it covered the blown core in the 180s stack. As a result it has lost some of the details in the core.

Image D: is A and C blended together as a minimum and maximum image in Pixel Maths.

Hopefully the clouds will part enough for me to gather the OIII 600s subs soon.

B

Description: OIII 60x5s stack, cropped.

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C

Description: The RGB stack of 4s subs 84 in total.

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D

Description: A min max blend of A and C in pixel maths.
A R,GOIII,BOIII image.
Worth clicking on the image for the expanded view.

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E

Description: E: Two years on :-) evened up the bg.

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F

Description: F: A crop showing some core detail on this tiny Pn.

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RA (center)	19h44m48s.11
RA (top/left)	19h46m14s.89
RA (top/right)	19h45m27s.72
RA (bottom/right)	19h43m20s.69
RA (bottom/left)	19h44m08s.98

Dec (center)	+50°31′29″.9
Dec (top/left)	+50°20′18″.5
Dec (top/right)	+50°48′07″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+50°42′36″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+50°14′51″.4

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