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Flame and Horsehead Nebulae, StarChaser1955
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Flame and Horsehead Nebulae

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Flame and Horsehead Nebulae

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Image Dates: 2021-02-06 through 2021-02-09

104 x 3 minutes (5.2 hours) with 21 flats (no dark or bias frames). ISO: 1600

Images stacked in Deep Sky Stacker (DSS).
Stacked image post-processed entirely in PixInsight.

PixInsight Process Flow
> DBE - Division
> DBE - Subtraction
> BlurXTerminator
> NoiseXTterminator
> HistogramTransformation
> SCNR (Green)
> CurvesTransformation (saturation)

Images taken with a Canon Ra through a f/2.2 Celestron RASA 11" V2 on a Meade LX850 mount/drive auto-guided by Meade StarLock at Sky Pony Observatory in the Davis Mountains of west Texas (Bortle 2 skies).
Canon Ra Sensor temperature: All over the place 
Target altitude: 49 to 57 degrees
FWHM: 3.84 to 4.91

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Flame and Horsehead Nebulae, StarChaser1955