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NGC 7822/Sh2-171, One-Shot Color, Alan Brunelle
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NGC 7822/Sh2-171, One-Shot Color

Revision title: Revision using new xXT tools, etc. Same set of subs data.

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NGC 7822/Sh2-171, One-Shot Color, Alan Brunelle
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NGC 7822/Sh2-171, One-Shot Color

Revision title: Revision using new xXT tools, etc. Same set of subs data.

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Revised 2/4/2023:
Still another emission bubble associated with a star-forming region within Cepheus.  As seen in many of these, there are a number of erosion pillars in the process of forming, complete or even almost completely eroded.  Though these are maybe not as dramatic as other such found in many other star-forming "bubbles". 

Revised with the original set of selected subs from a night of data collection.  Using the xXT tool set and Bill Blanshan's star reduction methods for fine tuning.  The hope was a better result regarding noise reduction, image contrast and sharpened detail, though those sorts of features are not over-abundant with this object.  I think I achieved the goals here.  Though it can be said that at typical viewing scale, the differences might not be so noticable.  However, I do believe that I was able to draw out the details in the shadows well removed from the most intense areas of emission.  This was a major goal for this revision.  In particular, most of the areas rimming the central "bubble" appear to have a good deal of unilluminated foreground dust, with some actually impinging directly onto the edges of the emission sections.  Here it is presented as a brownish tone, or at least a dull smoky haze.  Behind this haze, I think I was also able to bring out more detail of the dark clouds silhoutted over fainter background HII emissions.  And the original also had a bluish cast/gradient that was strongest over the left part of the image.  And a bunch of distracting star halos. I fixed those.  So, hopefully a better, more complete presentation.


Original Description:
As I have been doing, I provide an image of the preprocessed data, having only done a STF autostretch (channels unlinked) for those to see what the data looks like with the gear I am using, before I mess it up in my post-processing.

This is a pretty complex area, with lots of neat stuff, for not having a common name (at least not one I have seen). Dust pillars, Bok globules, lots of emission and dark nebulosity, and even a hint of some reflection nebula near one of the very hot young cluster of stars seen here. If you compare the two images, you can see that I did some star reduction (two methods used), but mostly left the hot bright stars in the two key regions unmolested, because, hey, they are making this whole thing happen.

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Title: Revision using new xXT tools, etc. Same set of subs data.

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NGC 7822/Sh2-171, One-Shot Color, Alan Brunelle