NIR+Vis M42 - Entering a New World (V.M Legary)

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NIR+Vis M42 - Entering a New World

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New domain, New rules.

NIR astrophotography is something that isn't touched very much, and I understand why now. The difficulties of shooting NIR vs Visible, especially in calibrations (flats, plus pre and post-processing) makes it a daunting challenge, which I happily take on. I could've very well made this a pure greyscale image, but where's the fun in that?

Turns out the ASI2400MC Pro has equilibrium between the green and red pixels in IR sensitivity, and I only noticed a 10% histogram drop with equal exposure time using IR vs L-Pro. Unfortunately, microlensing is a thing, but at least it looks cool!

Considering the poor seeing, the moon, and how little integration this is, I am very happy with it.

The details in the core are absurd

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Title: Core Details, with proper color calibration

Description: Unfortunately there is a stacking artifact in the outer dust of this processing, that is just not wanting to get removed, regardless of all settings changing.

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Title: New Approach

Description: Re-calibrated image with drizzle 2x and extra care taken to reduce yellowness of the image.

Starting to feel like a Pan-STARRS DR1 image.

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Astrometry.net job	8965026
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h35m10s.620
RA (top/left)	05h36m01s.544
RA (top/right)	05h35m58s.710
RA (bottom/right)	05h34m18s.801
RA (bottom/left)	05h34m21s.889

Dec (center)	-05°29′57″.69
Dec (top/left)	-05°56′09″.14
Dec (top/right)	-05°03′25″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	-05°03′47″.76
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°56′32″.78

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