Musca Molecular Cloud (Dark Doodad) (Brian Boyle)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Musca (Mus) · Contains: HD107098 · HD107359 · HD107875 · HD107947 · HD107983 · HD108133 · HD108148 · HD108251 · HD108314 · HD108331 · HD108341 · HD108342 · HD108419 · HD108447 · HD108517 · HD108532 · HD108573 · HD108648 · HD108735 · HD108751 · HD108764 · HD108791 · HD108940 · HD108970 · HD109066 · HD109082 · HD109234 · HD109329 · HD109399 · HD109565 · And 7 more.

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Musca Molecular Cloud (Dark Doodad)

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Musca Molecular Cloud (Dark Doodad)

Revision title: Re-processed with better tools and more experience

There aren't too many images of the Dark Doodad taken at moderate focal length (OK, so I am calling 640mm moderate) largely due to its extent on the sky., so I thought this image might be interesting to my AB friends. I came across this data as part of a general clean out on my archive.Taken back in April, it didn't post it on Astrobin because I wasn't really happy with it. I am still not really happy with it, but with further post-prcoessing, it is not totally awful.

The biggest challenge is that an otherwise beautiful dark nebula and globular cluster is photobombed by the bright star Gamma Mus. I have done what I can to reduce the stellar halo, but it is still quite intrusive. [StarXterminator and NoiseXterminator by Russel Cronon have revolutionised my post-processing - I just need HaloXterminator]

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Description: More star taming

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Description: Refreshed my Doodad

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9135440
PixInsight job	LX4XDNF20JV25MJ4XAS29M7R1TIWS52E
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h29m05s.19
RA (top/left)	12h38m39s.76
RA (top/right)	12h39m04s.10
RA (bottom/right)	12h20m48s.63
RA (bottom/left)	12h17m36s.35

Dec (center)	-71°44′39″.4
Dec (top/left)	-73°07′56″.2
Dec (top/right)	-70°24′23″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-70°19′48″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	-73°02′44″.5

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