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LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon
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LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield)

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LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon
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LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield)

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I have tried the region of the Elephant trunk before, inspired by some of the amazing images seen of this DSO on this site.

To see what I could wring out of it with my freshly modified 60D, I left the city to visit our farm, about 50 km south of the city. New moon promised a very dark night and the seeing was good and so I set up shop with the company of a bunch of curious deer and the ubiquitous chorus of owls.

A cold night, at 2*C.. I am reminded of whats in store for myself this winter.

I was hunting for dark nebula and was lucky to hit on a large number of them, including Barnard 162 and its neighbours. The little Stellarvue provides a very wide look at this region.

Thanks for looking!

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Sept 17, 2020 - addendum

I reprocessed the basic data using Pixinsight 1.8 trial version, the results are in panels C and D.

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  • LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon
    Original
  • LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon
    B
  • LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon
    C
  • Final
    LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon
    D

B

Description: An hour prior to imaging, this cloud was worrisome, but kindly evaporated in time.

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C

Description: I abandoned Photoshop 2020 and used only APP and Pixinsight to process this version. One can see far more subtlety in the color, and the stars are deemphasized. This is with Pixinsight routines run without any interference from myself, taken from a borrowed workflow.

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D

Description: My second run at processing with Pixinsight (I have the trial version of 1.8). Nice program, very powerful!🙂

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LM380, Barnard 162, LDN 1099 and other dark nebula in the region of Mu Cephei in Cepheus (widefield), Ian Dixon