Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  10 nu. Cep  ·  12 Cep  ·  B151  ·  B153  ·  B154  ·  B160  ·  B161  ·  B162  ·  B163  ·  B165  ·  B166  ·  B359  ·  B360  ·  B365  ·  B366  ·  B367  ·  B368  ·  Erakis  ·  IC 1396  ·  PK098+04.1  ·  PK100+04.1  ·  Sh2-129  ·  Sh2-131  ·  The star 12Cep  ·  The star Garnet Star (μCep)  ·  The star νCep  ·  VdB140  ·  VdB142  ·  mu. Cep
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The Squid, The Bat, and an Elephant Trunk, Josh Smith
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The Squid, The Bat, and an Elephant Trunk

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The Squid, The Bat, and an Elephant Trunk, Josh Smith
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The Squid, The Bat, and an Elephant Trunk

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The final data set from Okie Tex! Actually, this one is a combination of Okie Tex data and my backyard white zone. The majority of the Narrowband data has been acquired from my house in St Pete while the OSC data was all acquired from Okie Tex.

This data set includes the first deep testing of narrowband filters with the Sigma Art lens and different f ratios and OSC camera and for me, the jury is still out on the best solution. I will be switching back to the QSI for additional testing and try to do some actual objective and analytical work on it.

Switching over to real widefield processing has been quite the challenge for me and I had literally 30 versions of this monster field before settling on this presentation. Given that this framing puts you almost smack dab in the middle of the milky way, even a very gentl stretch leaves the field completely dominated by stars! The stars are so dense that much of the original field color I saw, were actually just stars and not dust and it took quite a few iterations to understand that and try to bring out true dust and gaseous emissions rather than what I thought was there. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this presentation and all C&C's are much appreciated. Thanks for looking!

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The Squid, The Bat, and an Elephant Trunk, Josh Smith