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Miracle Jellyfish (IC 443), Gary Lopez
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Miracle Jellyfish (IC 443)

Miracle Jellyfish (IC 443), Gary Lopez
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Miracle Jellyfish (IC 443)

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The data for this image were one of the gifts I received last Christmas. In December there was a three-day stretch of clear weather. Because of equipment malfunctions, I was only able to collect about 9 hours of light sub, not nearly enough for this object. About a week later there was one more clear night and this time everything worked. I enjoyed perfect tracking and focus from horizon to horizon and found 9 more hours of spectacular data on my computer the next morning. It was a bit of a holiday miracle.

This is the third time that I have processed these data. In the previous efforts, I struggled with a perimeter glow, especially in the SII data, and found that I was over processing and loosing object structure. Since those two earlier attempts, I have experimented and finally devised a processing approach that does a reasonable job of cleaning up the perimeter glow without any obvious impact on the signal.

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