Skull Nebula / NGC 246 (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Cetus (Cet) · Contains: NGC 246

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Skull Nebula / NGC 246

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Skull Nebula / NGC 246

Revision title: Portrait Version

The weather has been horible and I don't see any clear skies within the next week so I decided to go ahead and process this image. It was a fill in image while I was waiting for my main target to come up. While I always try to get 6-8hrs of data (even with a fill in) on any object I was pleasantly surprised at how nice this turned out with only 4.5hrs of data. Especially when you consider the fact that it only gets 32-33 degrees above the horizon at its highest point from my location. I really have to account this to BXT now that its in my current workflow.
I originally processed the data in APP but this was an odd ball in that I reprocessed it in WBPP. Normally I don't have problems in APP being able to correct for "light refraction" in my images but for whatever reason I just couldn't fix it there so I used WBPP along with splitting the channels and recombining them which fixed my issue.
This is a wider fov image but I'm going to work on a so called "portrait" version and will upload it in the next day or so.

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Description: Processed this a bit different to try and pull out more detail within the core of the nebula.

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Astrometry.net job	6868134
PixInsight job	VTHRQWSK1S6E54J4TB81G0HY307MJO6Z
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h47m03s.800
RA (top/left)	00h46m03s.170
RA (top/right)	00h47m17s.129
RA (bottom/right)	00h48m04s.527
RA (bottom/left)	00h46m50s.500

Dec (center)	-11°52′17″.13
Dec (top/left)	-11°49′57″.70
Dec (top/right)	-12°06′57″.79
Dec (bottom/right)	-11°54′37″.30
Dec (bottom/left)	-11°37′36″.66

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