IC1848 Soul Nebula - First clear night in weeks (Arny)

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IC1848 Soul Nebula - First clear night in weeks

Revision title: Soul Nebula: adding another 1,5hrs exposure time & better processing

IC1848 Soul Nebula - First clear night in weeks

Revision title: Soul Nebula: adding another 1,5hrs exposure time & better processing

After weeks of overcast skies with no more than a few minutes of clear skies finally the sky opened up for 4 hours and allowed some imaging.

Tried out the new Optolong L-ENhance filter and fully processed in PixInsight for the first time - it does quite a bit longer than Deep Sky Stacker, but results are stunning.

Due to wind gusts I could not afford more than 60 second exposures, so tried out gain 300 and 100 gain and managed to get 177x 60''' frames.
Gain 100 appeared to be weak, but worked out fine in PIwhile the gain 300 images did not even get stacked in Pixinsight.

Image still a bit noisy, and I could not get rid of the blueish background yet ...

Update:
- managed to integrate both session in PI WBPP
- due to more careful adjustments reduced artefacts

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Title: finally managed to integragte both 100+300 gain sessions, now adding up to 176 minutes

Description: using keyword GAIN in PixInsight WPBB did sort out and integrated both sessions beautifully

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Title: Soul Nebula: adding another 1,5hrs exposure time & better processing

Description: Added 90 minutes of integration time the night after,
using BlurXTerminator in PixInsight and doing the finishing touch in Adobe Lightroom led to this image, with which I am very happy.

Any recommendations what to improve?

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Astrometry.net job	7037927
PixInsight job	8PA1B27BM3GDJAXFPZS3NWVRWVI9SS4I
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h55m49s.100
RA (top/left)	03h02m50s.26
RA (top/right)	02h44m12s.21
RA (bottom/right)	02h49m18s.43
RA (bottom/left)	03h07m14s.80

Dec (center)	+60°27′48″.2
Dec (top/left)	+61°38′42″.9
Dec (top/right)	+60°44′42″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+59°15′37″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+60°07′06″.10

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Revision title: Soul Nebula: adding another 1,5hrs exposure time & better processing

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