NGC 457, Owl Cluster (Rob Foster)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: 34 Cas · 34 phi Cas · HD236689 · HD236697 · HD7733 · HD7902 · HD8159 · NGC 436 · NGC 457 · Owl Cluster · The star φ Cas

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NGC 457, Owl Cluster

Revision title: SPCC and BlurXTerminator revision

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NGC 457, Owl Cluster

Revision title: SPCC and BlurXTerminator revision

For this version, I shot 60s subs at iso 400 - targeting the same area tonight at different settings of 30s and iso 100 to study the impact on core saturation. Even in this version, I needed to use HSV Repair Script followed by ColorClip script to get rid of the blown out cores.

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Title: SPCC and BlurXTerminator revision

Description: I think the main thing SPCC has done is facilitate better color processing for the drizzle integrated images (and of course, non-drizzled images). The background was much better in this revision, losing the purple tint. Although the star cluster itself has lost some of the blue present in the original version, this would seem to be a much more accurate representation of the stellar color, particularly when you zoom in and look at morphology and color distribution in individual stars.

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RA (center)	01h18m27s.861
RA (top/left)	01h22m25s.880
RA (top/right)	01h22m35s.445
RA (bottom/right)	01h14m21s.533
RA (bottom/left)	01h14m29s.920

Dec (center)	+58°21′46″.39
Dec (top/left)	+57°40′43″.98
Dec (top/right)	+59°02′13″.66
Dec (bottom/right)	+59°02′20″.15
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°40′51″.85

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