Sh2-134 - A Jewel in Cepheus in HOO (The starless version) (Frank Rogin)

Sh2-134 - A Jewel in Cepheus in HOO (The starless version)

I took advantage of our summer vacation in the beautiful Ulten Valley (Südtirol) this year and focused on Sh2-134 in the constellation Cepheus under a wonderful dark alpine sky at about 800 m altitude. I used the fast Samyang lens on my ASI2600MC Pro to create a widefield view on this really interesting star region. Especially, the Lion (Sh2-132) and the Wizard Nebulas (NGC 7380) give the scene a special touch. In three nights almost 9h total exposure time were collected where I shoot some filterless RGB frames for the star colors.

The post-processing took me a few nights of hard work. As always, I learned a few new things in PixInsight. So, I used the latest version 2 of Russell Croman's StarXTerminator to help me process this densely packed star region. In my opinion, the StarXTerminator plugin works flawlessly and gives here better results than the really great StarNet2. At the end of the processing I used the NoiseXTerminator from Russell Croman. This plugin also does a great job!

I hope you like it! I look forward to your feedback and comments.

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Frank

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