Out from the depths: The Dark Shark (Brian Boyle)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: 16 Cep · 24 Cep · HD208509 · HD210615 · HD210806 · HD211300 · HD211771 · LBN 535 · LBN 541 · LBN 546 · LDN 1235 · The star 16 Cep · The star 24 Cep · VdB149

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As I am going through my archive, I come across data that either a) I had forgotten to process or b) data that I had processed but deemed to be of too low-quality to post.

There were far more of the former than the latter, but this image of the Dark Shark nebula, is one that fell into the latter category. It is has languished almost 2.5years in a partially-processed state. Armed with the new RC Astro tools, I wanted to see if I cuold salvage something, and I turns out that a) the data wasn't as bad as I had originally thought and b) the RC Astro tools do a wonderful job of getting the monst out of the data.

The data actually comes from the Tak180/MC2600 combo at Roboscopes, and it is pleasing to finally get a postable image.

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	22h06m36s.88
RA (top/left)	22h24m16s.43
RA (top/right)	21h47m04s.20
RA (bottom/right)	21h50m46s.31
RA (bottom/left)	22h24m37s.89

Dec (center)	+73°07′14″.6
Dec (top/left)	+74°01′06″.2
Dec (top/right)	+73°46′17″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+72°08′18″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+72°21′54″.2

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