IC 405, The Flaming Star Nebula OSC. A battle with clouds. (Przemysław Majewski & teleskopy.pl)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: AE Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · IC 405 · Sh2-229

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IC 405, The Flaming Star Nebula OSC. A battle with clouds.

Endless clouds, my last proper deep sky photo was 3 months ago.

Today I have literally ripped 4 hours out of the clouds clutches as they laughingly covered the entire sky... probably for yet again many days.

PS. Don't forget almost full December moon, 60+ deg altitutde, near Auriga constellation

I think this night it was passing close to the pleiades.

EDIT.

Version A & B have less agressive processing and only 23 frames from the 1st day. 3hrs 50'.

Version C contains the solo processed RED channel, which would be mostly Halfa signal. (CHECK OUT)

Versions D+ contain the whole two days, 8 hours exposure time.

B

Description: A bit of USM. This is the stack from the 1st day, 23 frames x 600", 3hrs 50'.

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C

Description: BONUS! The red channel from the two-day 8 hours version.Mostly Halfa signal, I reckon.

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D

Description: The much more aggressively enhanced full stack of 8 hrs form the first and second day with an even more full Moon :)

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E

Description: After a lot of whining that version D has a too bright background I've decided to tone it down. Feedback is always nice.

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F

Description: I had a hard time editing those blue reflections, so I created a synthetic O3 channel as 0.7 green + 0.3 blue (weights via noise estimates) and created this HOO with Halpha tweak as luminance for the final touch

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G

Description: A bit of LHE magic, and ofc clouds are here, so I am doing reprocessing without end...

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RA (center)	05h14m54s.324
RA (top/left)	05h10m27s.472
RA (top/right)	05h14m03s.779
RA (bottom/right)	05h19m22s.584
RA (bottom/left)	05h15m46s.150

Dec (center)	+34°19′09″.13
Dec (top/left)	+34°07′48″.97
Dec (top/right)	+33°23′47″.59
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°29′49″.49
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°14′31″.24

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