Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Bubble Nebula  ·  LBN 548  ·  LBN 549  ·  LDN 1231  ·  NGC 7635  ·  Sh2-162
Bubble Nebula, Robert H. Kutner
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Bubble Nebula

Bubble Nebula, Robert H. Kutner
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Bubble Nebula

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Description

Stellarium 0.20.3 to scout and frame target. ASIAir pro to acquire ~30 x 300s images @ -10c & 120g for Ha, Sii, & Oiii, ~69% were usable. For RGB, for stars, 10 x 10s images @ -10c & 120g.

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

For Ha, Sii, & Oiii channels:  Cropped, DBE, TGV, MTT, (& 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, TGV, MMT, EZStar Reduction, and LRGB Combined with the PixelMath SHO image.

RGB filter data combined with Channel Combination, Image was masked with an inverted Star Mask and replaced with SHO image using Pixel Math to add the nebulosity around the stars.

Combined image was TGV, MMT, & Curves modified (w/ masks). Moved to Photoshop to further adjust saturation and contrast, and additional noise reduction.  Returned to PI for Resample, Crop, and Annotation.

*R = (Oiii^~Oiii)*Sii + ~(Oiii^~Oiii)*Ha
G = ((Ha*Sii)^~(Ha*Sii))*(.8*Ha+.2*Oiii) + ~((Ha*Sii)^~(Ha*Sii))*(.9*Oiii)
B = .9*Oiii + .1*Ha

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Bubble Nebula, Robert H. Kutner