Magical Grotto (urmymuse)

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Magical Grotto

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Magical Grotto

The cone nebula and Xmas tree cluster - taken over five nights from 21st Nov to 15 Dec

My wife looking at this said ooh it looks like a cave ! I said nooooo its the cone nebula ... but once she said this i began to see it, hence the title. if you see the Oiii as the entrance in the centre you may see it

I set out to do 15 hours on this but it has ben nothing but clouds here for last couple of weeks so decided to go with what i have got - the processing of the Oiii was particularly tricky

Ha 60 x 300s
Sii 24 x 300s
Oiii 28 x 300s
= 112 = Nines hours twenty mins

I messed around with the colours for ages and settled on this rusty look

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Description: Have been thinking about reprocessing this, started with a Ha only version

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Description: Finally got round to reprocessing this ... nothing but clouds and rain here in Leeds at the moment.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	8228765
PixInsight job	E9Q8U5OWL6DQPQ438R5988O50Z7UKC5V
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h40m38s.76
RA (top/left)	06h43m56s.66
RA (top/right)	06h41m04s.52
RA (bottom/right)	06h37m20s.58
RA (bottom/left)	06h40m13s.16

Dec (center)	+09°57′54″.9
Dec (top/left)	+09°28′03″.8
Dec (top/right)	+10°54′42″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+10°27′37″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+09°01′06″.5

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