Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Crab nebula  ·  M 1  ·  NGC 1952  ·  PGC 1660066  ·  Sh2-244
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M 1 Crab Nebula, Michael Timm
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M 1 Crab Nebula

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M 1 Crab Nebula

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So after a long time absence from AstroBin i am back. I want to say an excuse to all the people i follow for not commenting on your great images. There were some things in real life that prevented me from participating in the community for the last three (or maybe a bit more) months. I had a hard time at work and could not pull myself up, and there were some other things consuming my time :-( Everything is fine now and the clouds left germany a few days ago, so i returned to our beloved hobby, which can be performed even in these terrible times - social distancing is no problem for astrophtographers, since mostly we are alone at night.

The image was taken as a test for my new filter: A OSC narrowband one from HUTECH, the IDAS NB1. Transmission curve can be viewed here:

HUTECH IDAS NB1

I was so stunned by the result that this image is no longer a test. I totally love this SNR and the neutron star living inside. I have never imagined that i could image the fine filaments by myself. This image could have been even better, because while imaging the guiding was not so good - like i said, this image was originally meant as a test, so i didn't bother about the bad guiding! My postprocessing followed my standard-workflow, so i am not sure if the colors are really natural. But they are fine for me :-) Long story short: I am fully satisfied with the image.

[Edit]: The image was a bit greenish. I simply forgot to apply SCNR during my workflow. Did that in version B, looks better i think.

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Description: With SCNR.

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C

Description: New postprocessing workflow. Sadly the noise blob is more visible.

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M 1 Crab Nebula, Michael Timm