" The Blue Lagoon" / Pacman Nebula in Hubble Palette / NGC 281 (Francesco)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD236521 · HD5005 · HD5032 · IC 1590 · LBN 615 · LBN 616 · LBN 621 · NGC 281 · Sh2-184

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" The Blue Lagoon" / Pacman Nebula in Hubble Palette / NGC 281

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" The Blue Lagoon" / Pacman Nebula in Hubble Palette / NGC 281

The lack of clear nights is so far worse than last year, so, lacking new images to process, I'm testing my skills in Hubble Palette with older i

I never tried this processing technic before cause I didn't really like it. But I changed my mind now and will try it more often.

Unfortunately I had some issues with the stars last year and I'm not sure what was the cause of it (the stars looked like brain neurons after morphologic transformation in Pixinsight). I resolved the problem, but Pacman was from last year so the stars are terrible

In Hubble Palette this nebula reminds me of a volcanic island with a lagoon in the middle full of small islands :-) Surely sunny there, but maybe not so warm

Anyway, this is my first attempt with Hubble Palette following the tutorial from lukomatico (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_N4J-lPTOM) .

Cs to everyone!

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RA (center)	00h52m25s.37
RA (top/left)	00h55m08s.39
RA (top/right)	00h45m59s.42
RA (bottom/right)	00h49m49s.36
RA (bottom/left)	00h58m51s.21

Dec (center)	+56°37′47″.6
Dec (top/left)	+57°26′02″.9
Dec (top/right)	+56°38′36″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+55°49′18″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°35′41″.6

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