Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7497
Pegasus Molecular Cloud, Scott Sloka
Pegasus Molecular Cloud
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Pegasus Molecular Cloud

Pegasus Molecular Cloud, Scott Sloka
Pegasus Molecular Cloud
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Pegasus Molecular Cloud

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This is data from my first light of my Aspen CG16M camera from about 4 years ago. It has been quite a learning curve to get my methods and processes down, but I think I am almost happy with it. I still do not have colour figured out all that well, so any comments/critiques would be well appreciated. My flats were off with this, and I now usually acquire much longer luminance data as the underlying luminance data are quite noisy.

Lum: 12x10min

RGB: 12x5min each

5hrs total

Data were acquired at my parent's cottage in a (grey Bortle 2) in cottage country, Ontario.

The final images are more of an experiment in presenting the low-level dusty parts of the universe. I wrote an algorithm in Python to eliminate the smaller stars, trying to minimize distortion as much as possible. I am still tweaking the algorithm, but may upload it to GitHub once I am happier with it. Any comments on the star reduction would be much appreciated as well.

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Description: This image is star eliminated with my own python star elimination algorithm and then the stars are slightly reduced with Pixinsight to reduce how bright they appear with 10min subs.

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Pegasus Molecular Cloud, Scott Sloka