NGC 2174 - Monkey Business in SHO (Timothy Martin)

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

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NGC 2174 - Monkey Business in SHO

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NGC 2174 - Monkey Business in SHO

I went hard after the monkey's beard in this one. I've recently been very discouraged by results on OU4 and the Spaghetti nebula using OSC--over 100 hours of integration time on each didn't produce anything close to the results I wanted. O3 in a heavily light polluted area with one-shot-color has just been a no-go for me. But I recently switched to mono and this result is very encouraging to me. Admittedly, I was really going after faint Ha here, but it still gives me hope that I can one day get the O3 data I've been looking for.

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Description: Many people tell me I'm too timid with saturation, so here's a more colorful version. It will take me some getting used to, but it does seem that the more popular images here and elsewhere have a higher saturation level. I admit that it brings out more detail in the fainter regions.

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Description: Made minor adjustments to background saturation.

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Description: Another Russell Croman reclamation project.

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Title: Another Croman-Brecher Version

Description: I find the data for this image to be an interesting gauge of what new techniques and processes can yield with material that is pretty flawed. It's also an interesting benchmark of how my own processing tastes have changed.

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RA (center)	06h09m45s.754
RA (top/left)	06h08m23s.107
RA (top/right)	06h11m10s.137
RA (bottom/right)	06h11m08s.784
RA (bottom/left)	06h08m21s.195

Dec (center)	+20°39′39″.85
Dec (top/left)	+20°11′18″.51
Dec (top/right)	+20°11′33″.43
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°07′50″.29
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°07′33″.45

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