Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  10 ome02 Sco  ·  12 c01 Sco  ·  12.46  ·  13 c02 Sco  ·  13.18  ·  14 nu. Sco  ·  150 Nuwa  ·  18 Oph  ·  19 omi Sco  ·  20 sig Sco  ·  21 alf Sco  ·  22 i Sco  ·  23 tau Sco  ·  24 Oph  ·  24 Sco  ·  25 Sco  ·  26 Oph  ·  26 eps Sco  ·  27 Sco  ·  29 Oph  ·  356 Liguria  ·  4 psi Oph  ·  49 Lib  ·  5 rho Oph  ·  5 rho Sco  ·  6 pi. Sco  ·  7 chi Oph  ·  7 del Sco  ·  8 bet01 Sco  ·  8 bet02 Sco  ·  And 107 more.
The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, lefty7283
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The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, lefty7283
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The Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

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Description

Captured on June 6th, 2018 from a Bortle 3 zone.



**Equipment:**

* Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8

* Orion Sirius EQ-G

* Canon Rebel T3i (Astro modified)

**Acquisition:** 2 hours 12 minutes

* Lights- 44x180" at ISO 800 (Lens at 50mm and f/4)

* Darks-10

* Bias- 250

**Capture Software:**

* EQMod mount control. Captured using [N.I.N.A.](https://bitbucket.org/Isbeorn/nina) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering

**PixInsight Processing:**

* CosmeticCorrection

* BatchPreProcessing

* ImageIntegration

* DynamicCrop

* AutomaticBackgroundExtraction (This star field is dense and I'm lazy)

* CanonBandingReduction

* BackgroundNeutralization

* ColorCalibration

* SCNR

* ArcsinhStretch

* HistogramTransformation

* ACDNR

* LRGBCombination (for chrominance noise reduction)

* [Curves](https://i.imgur.com/r99mWCI.jpg)Transformation

* DarkStructureEnhance

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