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IC 434 - Horsehead Nebula, vsola
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IC 434 - Horsehead Nebula

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Description

This is a combination of SHO nebula and RGB stars. I have about 9 hours of SHO and almost 2 hours of RGB.

The image is uncropped, so you can see the stacking artifacts on the edges. In addition, I have some weird things to the right-hand side of the image. I believe it’s a reflection of some sort, it shows up quite strong in the Oxygen images and is faintly visible in the Sulfur images and not visible in the Hydrogen Alpha images. The artifact showed up each night that I imaged with those two filters but, was not visible on other targets using those filters, so I think it must be something when the scope is pointed to the ESE, possibly a street light.  The pattern is stable and only shifts in the subframes as the scope is dithered, I looked in the dew shield and couldn’t see any sort of a reflection while imaging. The next time I shoot in that direction I’m going to move the scope location in the yard and see if that resolves the issue.

Processing in PixInsight:
Calibrated, Registered, Normalized, and Integrated with WBPP
S2, Ha, and O3 masters blended in standard SHO and Foraxx Palettes. Both had a background neutralization applied and then the stars were removed. The SHO image was normalized with the Narrowband Normalization process module. The SHO and Foraxx palettes were then blended with pixel math (70/30). The blended image than had noise reduction applied before stretching. After stretching a light curves was applied.
A copy of the Ha master had its stars removed, light noise reduction before being stretched. The stretched image had BlurXterminator applied.
The Ha data was applied to the blended SHO data via LRGB combination, followed by an unsharp mask and a final noise reduction.
The RGB data was combined with WBPP and the stars were removed and saved. The RGB stars had  a light curves applied before stretching.
The RGB stars were rescreened back into the blended SHO data and the image was rotated 180 degrees.

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Title: OIII_Master_with_reflections

Description: This is the OIII master with what I believe is a reflection, that is quite apparent and seems to shift position due to dithering.

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D

Title: OIII_Single_Subframe

Description: A single 300 second subframe showing the apparent reflection.

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IC 434 - Horsehead Nebula, vsola