Monkey Head Nebula in SHO from Bortle 8 skies (Mihail)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: IC 2159 · LBN 854 · Monkey Head Nebula · NGC 2174 · NGC 2175 · Sh2-252

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Monkey Head Nebula in SHO from Bortle 8 skies

Revision title: Background not so dark, improved saturation

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Monkey Head Nebula in SHO from Bortle 8 skies

Revision title: Background not so dark, improved saturation

Finally complete, my first SHO palette acquisition and processing workflow. One month of work, with all kinds of issues, including oil leak on sensor, snagged cables during meridian flip, focuser slippage, power jack issues, software crashes, and the list goes on. It's been quite a learning curve, and I realize I'm quite far from the inflection point, but I'm happy with this first result.

Images were taken from my back-yard, in the suburbs of light-polluted Bucharest. Some were done under full moon, some between clouds while I was nervously checking radar maps for potential incoming rain. In the end, I could not have achieved this result without perseverance and the help from my astronomy club. Cheers!

Starless version here:

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Title: Background not so dark, improved saturation

Description: For the initial revision, the background was too dark and some fine detail was lost. Applied slight desaturation on background (masked with inverted CIE-L* component after CurvesTransformation). Also increased saturation a little.

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RA (center)	06h09m48s.501
RA (top/left)	06h08m15s.656
RA (top/right)	06h11m39s.960
RA (bottom/right)	06h11m21s.827
RA (bottom/left)	06h07m56s.531

Dec (center)	+20°33′50″.42
Dec (top/left)	+20°01′22″.70
Dec (top/right)	+20°04′48″.55
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°06′07″.30
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°02′42″.69

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