Wizard Nebula (Alex Ranous)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD215588 · HD215605 · HD215771 · HD215806 · HD215835 · HD215907 · HD216248 · HD240047 · HD240068 · LBN 506 · LBN 511 · LDN 1200 · NGC 7380 · PK107-00.1 · Sh2-142 · Sh2-143

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My new favorite thing to do with these narrowband images is to replace the stars with RGB versions. I prefer the smaller stars I get when using my focal reducer, so I like shrinking them when I'm using my field flattener to get that look. I perhaps got a bit carried away this time, but they're certainly colorful.

I captured 12x300sec for each of the RGB subs, which I only used for star substitution, which is probably overkill.

I never saw the wizard in this until a friend pointed it out. Explains why most folks frame it with him upright looking right, but I'm leaving him on his back.

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Description: The last couple early images I reprocessed came out so well, I might just redo a whole slew of them. I was never happy with this wizard, so here's another swing at the same data. I started with the same masters I saved from before instead of re-creating them from scratch. I'm finding all that fancy new local normalization stuff in PI doesn't make a big difference in my NB images, so probably not worth the hassle of running it all through WBPP again.

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Description: I was never satisfied about the sharpness of this image. Now that I have BTX, I thought I'd reprocess this sucker. It didn't help all that much. Looking at my data, there was a fair number of poor frames in there, so I nuked those and shot some new data.

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Astrometry.net job	8429241
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	22h46m50s.220
RA (top/left)	22h43m00s.869
RA (top/right)	22h43m07s.865
RA (bottom/right)	22h50m29s.830
RA (bottom/left)	22h50m41s.621

Dec (center)	+58°07′15″.92
Dec (top/left)	+58°51′50″.67
Dec (top/right)	+57°22′29″.21
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°22′15″.16
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°51′36″.94

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