IC 2169 and Friends (Monty Giavelli)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: IC 446 · IC 447 · NGC 2245 · NGC 2247

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IC 2169 - Dreyer's Nebula

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IC2169 is a bright blue reflection nebula in the constellation of Monoceros about 2 deg west of the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster.
The smaller reflection nebula in the upper left corner of the image in NGC2245.
These objects, along with the Cone Nebula, NGC 2264, are part of one large star-forming region, RSF3 Mon.

I took some Ha, Oiii and Sii but they didn't add anything to the image. I also left out the Luminance image, there was very little detail.
The processing of this image was challenging, I stopped and restarted several times.

My original image version had several dust motes so I took new Flats and Dark-Flats and reprocessed it.

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I'm not totally satisfied with the colors in this one - too much purple. I will probably redo it, but otherwise I like the image.

Version 'D'
I reprocessed this one and got rid of much of the purple.
This is not a big flashy image like some of my others but I think it is a fair representation of the area.

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Title: IC2169 reprocessed

Description: I took new flats and dark flats and reprocessed the image.

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Title: IC 2169

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