Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) Headphone Nebula (Bob Rucker)

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Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) Headphone Nebula

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Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) Headphone Nebula

I finally managed to get my collimation dialed in so I decided to point my trusty 6SE at the Headphone Nebula and see what might materialize. I was a bit surprised that the 6SE was able to tease out this level of detail. Data was well dithered so I used APP and drizzle integration (2X with 0.9 droplet size) to scale things up a bit during stacking. Subsequent processing completed in Pixinsight with some final tweaks in Photoshop.

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Description: Just some minor tweaks to soften the reds a bit.

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Title: Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) Headphone Nebula - new Pixinsight processing with NoiseXTerminator

Description: Another reprocess of old data using recently learned Pixinsight techniques. This version uses Fornaxx's dynamic HOO pixelmath formula. I'm very impressed with NoiseXterminator and think this strikes a nicer balance. The other major change is including photometric color calibration for the RGB stars. A shoutout to Michael Feigenbaum for help on getting this process to work reliably for me.

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Description: Since it's cloudy, I thought I'd revisit some old data using my new workflow that uses Pixinsight to add my RGB stars back into the starless HOO image.

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Description: Another old data set that I'm practicing with. The goal on this version was to improve the outer Ha shell. This proved challenging with the C6 data but it is a bit more defined than it was. I cropped a bit more aggressively to get rid of the more objectionable stars.

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Astrometry.net job	6429526
PixInsight job	M53O6WVNGYSBTUZBQIDAUSFTCNMF52T1
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	07h57m48s.709
RA (top/left)	07h59m51s.858
RA (top/right)	07h58m37s.740
RA (bottom/right)	07h55m43s.868
RA (bottom/left)	07h57m01s.830

Dec (center)	+53°25′00″.30
Dec (top/left)	+53°08′15″.84
Dec (top/right)	+53°48′48″.71
Dec (bottom/right)	+53°41′35″.85
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°01′08″.55

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