Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Crab nebula  ·  LBN 833  ·  M 1  ·  NGC 1952  ·  Sh2-244
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M1, The Crab Nebula, meteoritehunterjim
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M1, The Crab Nebula

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M1, The Crab Nebula, meteoritehunterjim
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M1, The Crab Nebula

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With winter in full swing and no imaging going on it was a great surprise when Masters of PixInsight MOP for short offered as a gift to members datasets of objects taken by the three team members. This image of M1 was made from broadband and narrow band data supplied by Ron Brecher.
Thank you Ron Brecher and Masters of PixInsight.
It was a nice project and had some challenges. The OSC data and the Ha and Lum data needed to be corrected for position slightly. It took some careful Dynamic Crop work to get the stars and nebula perfectly positioned to stack. It was not too hard though. I had some choices. I could have just used the Ha and Lum for the nebula and used the RGB for just the stars and background. But I chose to use all the channels so my image is not just pink and white in the nebula.

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M1, The Crab Nebula, meteoritehunterjim

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