Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Bubble Nebula  ·  HD219460  ·  HD219634  ·  HD220056  ·  HD220057  ·  HD220074  ·  HD220130  ·  HD220147  ·  HD220167  ·  HD220180  ·  HD240233  ·  HD240248  ·  HD240253  ·  HD240256  ·  HD240264  ·  LBN 542  ·  LBN 543  ·  LBN 544  ·  LBN 547  ·  LBN 548  ·  LBN 549  ·  LDN 1229  ·  LDN 1230  ·  LDN 1231  ·  LDN 1233  ·  LDN 1234  ·  NGC 7538  ·  NGC 7635  ·  Sh2-158  ·  Sh2-159  ·  And 2 more.
Bubble Nebula at Calstar 2013, Stephen Migol
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Description

Taken with the modified and cooled Pentax K10D camera on the Stellarvue SV4 scope. No light pollution filter used, just the B+W 486 UV/IR filter.

Guided and Calibrated with Maxim.

Stacked in DSS.

Processed in Pix Insight for DBE, SCNR, Masked Stretch, Histogram Stretch to reset black point, TGVDenoise to smooth the background noise, Mt and Unsharp Mask to tighten star images slightly, Masked Curves to drop the background noise and control saturation.

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Bubble Nebula at Calstar 2013, Stephen Migol