Space Hammock (Sendhil Chinnasamy)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: HD100309 · HD100573 · HD100829 · HD100945 · HD100959 · HD101073 · HD101299 · HD101499 · HD101950 · HD102193 · HD102222 · HD102294 · HD102478 · HD102855 · HD103203 · HD103227 · HD103246 · HD103473 · HD103642 · HD104127 · HD104175 · HD104434 · HD104654 · HD104686 · HD104768 · HD104781 · HD104859 · HD104986 · HD105042 · HD105179 · And 36 more.

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Space Hammock - That's what it looked to me when I was framing this region, north of M81 and M82. Thought this would be a nice RGB target and went on with data collection on Lum.

What I did not know at that time is, how faint this area is. With 10h of L, I could barely make out the structures and realized I will be sitting on this for a while. Managed to collect about 3 hours of RGB in between and when I tested, the thing looked like a Master lum image, even fainter than my lum.

So went on with piling lum and RGB and I finally reached a point at 10+ hours each on RGB and thought 'this will definitely show some good signal, colors, I finally got it'. Nope, still grayscale with SPCC, Histo and Curves. Plus given that this did not raise more than 45 degrees, I ended up with gradient nightmare that almost put a color wheel to shame.

Ran into a bit of issue with BlurX and StarX on my data when taking it through. When I ran Blur X as a whole (stars / nebula), and then later on ran StarX, I found some of the stars from the Edges were stuck on to the starless image. Tried to run Blur X after separating signal and stars and while the stars got corrected, their cores got mushed up. So ran BlurX only on the stars while the whole image was linear and ran StarX immediately after. That seemed to be the ticket for me for data from this setup. The field is littered with many distant galaxies and few of them are very uniquely shaped.

Honestly, I am not super happy with this result given the time I have sunk in, but I'll remember not to image this region for a long time.

Clear skies!

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7436028
PixInsight job	FH1JIF48YHGORW36OFZ7HKM82N9I2N02
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	11h32m25s.26
RA (top/left)	12h25m37s.98
RA (top/right)	10h38m05s.75
RA (bottom/right)	10h51m39s.87
RA (bottom/left)	12h14m48s.00

Dec (center)	+74°38′37″.10
Dec (top/left)	+76°26′29″.8
Dec (top/right)	+76°16′23″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+72°14′25″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+72°21′34″.5

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