SH2-129 and OU4, The Bat and Squid Nebula (Bob Rucker)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B152 · HD200205 · HD201047 · HD201063 · HD201344 · HD201429 · HD202214 · HD202380 · HD203265 · HD203534 · HD203550 · HD203551 · HD203574 · HD203695 · HD204150 · HD239582 · HD239605 · HD239618 · HD239626 · HD239662 · LBN 441 · LBN 445 · LBN 449 · LBN 453 · LDN 1119 · LDN 1125 · Sh2-129

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SH2-129 and OU4, The Bat and Squid Nebula

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SH2-129 and OU4, The Bat and Squid Nebula

I decided to go for a rematch for my previous attempt at this target. This time I used Bin 2 since it seems my environment is not conducive to shooting in Bin 1 most of the time. In addition, cooler temperatures allowed me to cool at -15 versus -5 on my first attempt.

I definitely learned some new processing techniques with the addition of layer masks along with some creative non-linear stretching. Progress was made with the detail of the squid but I have some work ahead of me to learn some better methods of getting the Ha layer with better balance and detail. I think I'll take a break and image some less challenging targets while trying to learn some more about processing. I sure picked a hard hobby to occupy my retirement!

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Title: SH2-129 and OU4, The Bat and Squid Nebula - Reprocessed

Description: The clouds have put a halt to my current project of imaging SH2-240 so I've been pulling what little hair I have left out trying to improve the processing of the Squid. A lot of time was spent on cleaning up artifacts and adjusting the stretching to balance things out. This is probably about the best I can conjure up on this challenging target,

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Title: SH2-129 and OU4, The Bat and Squid Nebula - Reprocessed with Pixinsight

Description: I'm going back and reprocessing some old data as part of my Pixinsight learning process. My previous versions were pretty much brute force using APP and Photoshop. I am seeing some nice benefits with some of the Pixinsight tools and look forward to learning more about this program to further improve my processing skills.

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Description: Trying out some new techniques with Pixinsight.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6250129
PixInsight job	S9UOK8302DHFXEWZDV4XSR52NA8XZ6TJ
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h11m49s.90
RA (top/left)	21h15m25s.34
RA (top/right)	20h54m55s.23
RA (bottom/right)	21h08m39s.83
RA (bottom/left)	21h29m10s.94

Dec (center)	+59°57′57″.8
Dec (top/left)	+62°06′35″.6
Dec (top/right)	+59°28′54″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°49′02″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+60°18′40″.3

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