NGC 1333: making the best of compromised data (Richard Francis)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: B205 · LBN 741 · LDN 1450 · NGC 1333

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NGC 1333: making the best of compromised data

In late 2019, when I acquired these data, I was still in the rather steep learning curve of the Kepler 4040. In particular I had not appreciate the extreme sensitivity of the sCMOS device to temperature, and the impact of the anti-dew heater if the cooler is not running with ample headroom. Consequently the data forming this image are rather compromised and it has been heavily cropped, but probably not enough!

I first processed these data about a year ago but wasn't happy enough with the results to post the final image. Tonight I decided to have another go at it and now I'm am happier, though clearly it's not perfect and a number of odd-looking artefacts remain. In any case, it's now time to post it!

This object, NGC1333, is a combination of an active star-forming region embedded in a molecular cloud, and a reflection nebula (showing up in blue) illuminated by a B0 class star. The red portions of the image are where the new stars are forming, many of them obscured by the dense dust in this region. The young stars here are typically less than 2 million years old, which, to take another perspective, is about the age of the earliest ancient human fossils.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5190043
PixInsight job	149R6E97L07RAZL1V073DKL1N8AW6NL8
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	03h29m12s.268
RA (top/left)	03h26m10s.423
RA (top/right)	03h30m01s.363
RA (bottom/right)	03h32m14s.985
RA (bottom/left)	03h28m22s.521

Dec (center)	+31°23′21″.60
Dec (top/left)	+31°12′55″.73
Dec (top/right)	+30°44′30″.58
Dec (bottom/right)	+31°33′31″.99
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°02′11″.27

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