Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  NGC 246
Skull Nebula / NGC 246, Dale Penkala
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Skull Nebula / NGC 246

Revision title: Portrait Version

Skull Nebula / NGC 246, Dale Penkala
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Skull Nebula / NGC 246

Revision title: Portrait Version

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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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Title: Portrait Version

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

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Skull Nebula / NGC 246, Dale Penkala