IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula in OSC Antlia ALPT (Martin Dowd)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Centaurus (Cen) · Contains: IC 2944 · IC 2948 · The star λ Cen · lam Cen Nebula

IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula in OSC Antlia ALPT

Revision title: IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula using OSC Antlia ALPT

IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula in OSC Antlia ALPT

Revision title: IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula using OSC Antlia ALPT

IC 2944 captured over 3 nights under average seeing conditions , very light wind and no dew around
Location : Sydney Australia
Bortle 7/8 Skies
No Moon
Telescope : 6" f6 GSO Newtonian Reflector
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Imaging Camera : ZWO 2600MC cooled to -10C , Gain 101
TS Optics GPU Coma Corrector
Filter : Antlia ALPT 5nm OSC Dualband
Guide Scope : Orion 60mm with Helical focuser
Guide Camera : ZWO 120MM
Tracking and Goto : EQMOD and Stellarium
Capture Software : APT
PHD2 Multistar Guiding ( 0.50 to 0.60 arc sec total )
150 x 2min dithered subs ( total 5 hours )
3 x 40 Flats ( 3 nights )
60 x Bias
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker ( Multiple nights stacking using Reference Frame )
Processed in Startools version 1.8 ( data set loaded via Compose , used OSC Bi color )
SHO rendition using Matrix
As usual used Startools Spatially Variant PSF Deconvolution with excellent results ( stars are pin point and atmospheric blurring greatly reduced ( Binned the data set to 65% this time )

Thanks for Looking
Comments Welcome

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Title: IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula using OSC Antlia ALPT

Description: A reprocess of IC2944 in Startools which exposed more detail in the outer regions
Binned Data to 71%
Used a wider Region of Interest (ROI) in AutoDev
Reduced Gamma to 0.95 and Linearity to 60%
Used Shrink to tame Star field
Did not use any Superstructure modules
Color Mapping some slight changes
Increased Noise Reduction to 4 pixels

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Title: IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula Reprocessed (Final Revision)

Description: Last revision on this image
Used the Super Structure module in Startools ( Brightness tool ) to lift the main structures without losing too much fine detail
Also increased the saturation slightly
Image now exhibits a bit more lift

Comments always welcome
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