Small Magellanic Cloud (Paul Hancock)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Tucana (Tuc) · Contains: NGC 220 · NGC 222 · NGC 231 · NGC 242 · NGC 248 · NGC 249 · NGC 256 · NGC 261 · NGC 265 · NGC 267 · NGC 269 · NGC 290 · NGC 292 · NGC 294 · NGC 299 · NGC 306 · NGC 330 · NGC 346 · Small Magellanic Cloud

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Small Magellanic Cloud

Finally some clear skies, we have had bad weather here since May. Here is a significant portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud, featuring NGC346 at the top right. This nebula is made of 3 components, which I think I have ben successful in capturing; the small open cluster at its heart, the emission nebula surrounding the cluster and the reflection nebula surrounding all that. This is a HOO capture and I have worked hard to try and differentiate the incredibly subtle colour difference between the emission and reflection components of the nebula. Unfortunately the weather has returned to being poor and I have had some weird focus issues so I am stuck working with only 4 hours for each channel giving me a total of 8 hours.

I hope you like the image.

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Description: Evened out the background, it looked a bit clipped.

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Description: Reprocessed again.

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Description: Better background, I think.

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Description: Another ground up reprocessing. I've returned to using MLT and TGV denoise over Mure Denoise. I think it works better for my data. I've also tried out a new sharpening technique I saw on Visible Dark, I think it works quite well. Now I just need more data.

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Description: Now with 12 hours of data.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	5020865
PixInsight job	ASH6IJSXSN8OMHJESESZCBIE6EB9BGOL
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	00h50m42s.32
RA (top/left)	00h58m08s.10
RA (top/right)	01h01m54s.57
RA (bottom/right)	00h44m12s.17
RA (bottom/left)	00h38m16s.61

Dec (center)	-72°46′40″.6
Dec (top/left)	-73°55′47″.8
Dec (top/right)	-71°50′18″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-71°36′43″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-73°40′26″.6

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