NGC1499 California Nebula (Narrowband SHO) (Douglas Triggs)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: 46 ksi Per · California Nebula · IC 2005 · IC 2027 · LBN 752 · LBN 756 · LDN 1456 · LDN 1462 · LDN 1463 · LDN 1464 · LDN 1469 · Menkib · NGC 1499 · Sh2-220 · The star ξPer

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NGC1499 California Nebula (Narrowband SHO)

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NGC1499 California Nebula (Narrowband SHO)

Slowly learning how to process things but... Pretty happy with this one.

Colorado weather has been making me crazy (constant wind, clear days and cloudy nights, and temperature weirdness -- always just bad enough to keep the data from being perfect, but not bad enough to toss it). My ASIAir has been making me crazy (I'm... Going to replace it. It's slick, it's convenient, it's... Just got too many niggling issues. It wouldn't be so bad if it could reliably do a meridian flip, but half the time it fails for various idiotic reasons, and it just kinda has challenges with the slightly less-than-ideal conditions sometimes).

Such a frustrating hobby sometimes, yeah? But... Well, I got enough data to call this good, even if half of it was just windblown enough to squish up the stars nicely (so I processed the stars separately with just the good frames).

But in the end it was worth it.

Kind of a shame Astrobin doesn't want us splitting versions; the "salmon" version is also really interesting (although I didn't really finish it, I was just screwing around).

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Description: Slightly better balance, contrast, etc.

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Description: A little LESS contrast, but more of the faint detail. Noise more obvious, but so be it.

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Title: Salmon Nebula (S)HOO

Description: Just fooling around: tried HOO with S as the luminosity channel. Stars are messed up (didn't put any effort into reintegrating them properly) but thought this looked interesting.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5277676
PixInsight job	PF24YMJCSIXAT0POZO733IO2NE34952J
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	04h00m50s.00
RA (top/left)	04h09m01s.73
RA (top/right)	03h54m28s.67
RA (bottom/right)	03h52m46s.76
RA (bottom/left)	04h07m00s.50

Dec (center)	+36°28′39″.10
Dec (top/left)	+37°08′29″.9
Dec (top/right)	+37°42′45″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°46′41″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°13′30″.1

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