Christmas Tree Cluster (Georg G Albrecht)

Christmas Tree Cluster

Revision title: Cone and Christmas Tree - Dual-narrowband Enhancement

The final Image is a collaboration with a colleague who kindly shared his dual-narrowband date for me to incorporate with my widefield UV/IR data.
Information is in the image's description.

First - Happy Holidays to you all and may 2023 bring you (and me) many clear skies, preferable in the nights...

I had started this project and then abandoned it after the first night thinking that I would not get enough good data. Under B6/7 skies and imaging directly into the more prominent light pollution, I was just not confident enough. Then after coming back to Canada, I could not find flats for this object... and I almost deleted the subs.
After finding flats that could work with this set, I had to try it. Honestly, I produced worse images in the past and it gives me confidence to revisit this target next SoCal season. (Or maybe even here in the rainy Pacific Northwest, if I get a break)
Cheers and all the best. Georg

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Title: Cone and Christmas Tree - Dual-narrowband Enhancement

Description: Merely an experiment - One of my colleagues on our Discord group posted an image of his Cone & Christmas Tree end of December, just at the time I was processing my widefield RGB image of same object. I asked him if he would share and allow me to incorporate his data into mine. And so, I used APP to merge his data with my FOV in a mosaic mode. At the same time I also merged my data to his FOV for him to reprocess the image now with added reflection nebula data from my UV/IR images. It was an interesting endeavor and I learned a few new things. Unfortunately my data due to a relative short integration time had substantial noise and I did my best with what I had. Jack's data was taken with an AT115EDT with reducer/ flattener = 640 mm, ASI533MC Pro with L-extreme: 58 x 300sec exposures
https://www.astrobin.com/users/DoctorJB/
Thank you for sharing and I hope you post your image soon as well. Cheers

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RA (center)	06h40m25s.32
RA (top/left)	06h34m38s.15
RA (top/right)	06h46m06s.29
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RA (bottom/left)	06h34m41s.50

Dec (center)	+09°55′50″.1
Dec (top/left)	+09°00′52″.7
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