VdB 55 More There Than Sidney VdB Thought?OTA: CDK24
Camera: Moravian 61000 Pro
Observatory: Heaven's Mirror
Date of Capture: Feb '24
Date of Processing: Feb '24
Exposures:
R: 12 x 900 sec
G: 17 x "
B: 17 x "
L: 15 x "
Total Exposure time: 18.5 hours
Image Width: 31 arc-minutes
Processing Tools:
1. Commercial: PixInsight, Topaz, Photo Director 365, Radiant Photo
2. Pixinsight Addons: NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator
3. My Scripts: AC_Restar, Subframe Weighting Tool (Excel w/ J. Hunt), ColorTweaker
Target Description:
The reflection nebula tagged as VdB 55 is accompanied by a more extensive array of reflection nebula seldom imaged at this scale. The subscribers to HM's data for its CDK24 have published 2 other versions as of this writing. One was an image of the day on Astrobin:
https://astrob.in/5yhsai/0/. Certainly never ceases to amaze me how the same data can be interpreted in many ways!
Processing Description:
Processing was relatively routine. One issue is that the long exposures saturated some stars. But, in my opinion, that does not distract from the image—although it does not enhance it either. Judge for yourself.
Alex Woronow 
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