Pacman Returns (AstroDarkSky)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD5005 · IC 1590 · LBN 615 · LBN 616 · NGC 281 · Sh2-184

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Pacman Returns

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Pacman Returns

You know when you have a great capture session, but the processing just turns out... meh. So you mentally bookmark it to go back at a later date with more experience and new tooling? That's the case for this image.

I absolutely can not stress how valuable, time saving, and how much I absolutely love the following 2 new techniques I just used to shave my workflow down to 1/4 the time! :

First, check out Bill Blanshan's Pixinsight Normalized Narrowband Version 5 process for PixelMath. https://www.youtube.com/@anotherastrochannel2173/featured
It is absolute magic for turning OSC multiband filters filters into looking like you used dedicated narrowband filters in mono. I used HOO for this one.

Second, the new(working) colormask script is absolutely fantastic when you want to narrow in on a color range without jumping through hoops creating Oiii masks just to boost that blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kg3jfaGgeM&t=188s
Extremely easy to use and really should be part of the default PixInsight package replacing the default ColorMask script that doesn't behave as expected. Thanks to Adam Block for highlighting such a useful tool that could easily be missed buried in forum threads. The original script creator deserves a large thank you from the community! Original post and creator: https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?threads/new-script-colormask.7489/page-8#post-126361

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7439173
PixInsight job	TQLZVERWSVAR0ECIM6O634PPA39WBTZ1
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h52m21s.190
RA (top/left)	00h55m48s.915
RA (top/right)	00h48m51s.220
RA (bottom/right)	00h48m57s.296
RA (bottom/left)	00h55m47s.404

Dec (center)	+56°39′03″.19
Dec (top/left)	+57°00′06″.52
Dec (top/right)	+56°59′39″.78
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°17′37″.100
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°18′04″.30

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