Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  IC 2177  ·  NGC 2335  ·  NGC 2343
Seagull Nebula, Caleb Melton
Seagull Nebula
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Seagull Nebula

Seagull Nebula, Caleb Melton
Seagull Nebula
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Seagull Nebula

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Pixinsight Process:
Image Integration: Integrate flats and dark frames.
Image Calibration: Calibrate the flats and darks into the light frames.
Star Alignment: Align light frames in LRGB to a single frame.
Blink: Allows to pick out the bad frames with lights from cars, planes, or just plain old nasty haze.
ImageIntegration: Integrate SHO images
Dynamic Background Extraction: Samples per row: 20, Adjust the tolerance and remove points too close to nebulocity. (Only ran on Oiii data because Ha and Sii would produce unwanted noise.)
EZ Soft Stretch: Run basic settings on EZ Soft Stretch (https://darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/)
Histogram Transformation: Normal stretch on the histogram
PixelMath: Normal SHO combination using PixelMath.
Starnet++: Run Starnet to separate stars and nebulocity, also make sure to check Create StarMask.
Curves Transformation: Normal S curve to boost contrast
Starnet++: Run Starnet on Sii data to create a nebulocity mask for the red channel.
Histogram Transformation: Apply Sii mask to nebulocity, stretch the reds to get the red color rather than the yellows.
Local Histogram Equalization: Run LHE, usually image dependent on the settings. (Kernel: 92, Contrast Limit: 2.0, Amount: 0.430)
Dark Structure Enhance: Run DSE to enhance the dark nebulocity in the image.
Color Saturation: Saturate the colors to bring out the more hidden colors in the nebula.
PixelMath: Add the stars back into the nebulocity (SHO+Stars)

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Seagull Nebula, Caleb Melton

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