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NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls, Tom Gray
NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls, Tom Gray

NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls

Revision title: Reprocessed in Siril and Deep Sky Detail

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NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls, Tom Gray
NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls, Tom Gray

NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls

Revision title: Reprocessed in Siril and Deep Sky Detail

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Low flying seagulls are the bane of sitting at the seaside enjoying a fish supper. Fortunately we are not bothered in-land. However, imaging at this altitude resulted in shrubs interfering with the final few subs of this image as it skimmed the neighbours rooftops; I believe this is the cause of the strange banding in this image. I'm amazed that Siril did such a good job of rejecting the offending pixels. 

Anyway I'm not going to let this detract from my first image of IC 2177 - the seagull nebula. NGC 2327 refers to the head (also known as GUM 1 after the Australian Colin Gum) and LDN 1657 the dark beak, with the bright star HD 53367 thought to be the ignition source. Lying approximately 3,500 LY away and spanning over 100 LY this is a big nebula, ideal for the wide field of view of the Samyang lens.

I was pleased to also capture the open cluster NGC 2353 and fainter nebulosity in the middle of the frame, and fainter 2335 and 2343 - see annotated version in Revision C. Sh2-297 is the bright emission on the wingtip, which also shows reflections in broadband filters. As a welcome bonus I also managed NGC 2359, Thor's helmet, at the top of the frame - a little colour and detail are visible; for a truly spectacular view please see @Gary Imm amazing comparison with his 11" Celestron RASA and Edge scopes.

The result of stacking 300s and 600s exposures, I'm happy with the outcome. Following my now standard workflow - calibration in Siril, photometric colour calibration,  dynamic background extraction, then star removal with Nikita Misuira's StarNet ++ and stretching using generalised hyperbolic transformations. Re-composition with a lightly stretched star field, followed by sharpening and de-noising using Mark Lowry's clever Deep Sky Detail AI tools. Thanks for looking.

[Revision D - reprocessed in my now standard, standard workflow ... the stretched starless version is then put through Astrosharp and Astroclean (denoise) before recombining with starmask. Stars are deconvolved with a light stretch - I think this provides a cleaner image. I'm much happier with the colours in this revision, which shows off the Ha/OIII regions - constructive criticism welcome].

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Title: Starless

Description: Star extraction using Nikita Misuira's StarNet ++

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Title: Annotated

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Title: Reprocessed in Siril and Deep Sky Detail

Description: Re stretched starless version, with Astrosharp and Astroclean. Stars deconvolved and added back in

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Title: Starless version

Description: Starless version using Starnet++ followed by Deep Sky Detail Astrosharp and Astroclean (denoise)

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NGC 2327 - pesky seagulls, Tom Gray