Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Perseus (Per)  ·  Contains:  B203  ·  B205  ·  NGC 1333  ·  VdB12  ·  VdB13
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NGC1333, Vincent Savioz
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NGC1333

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NGC1333

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NGC 1333 is a reflection nebula located in the northern constellation Perseus, positioned next to the southern constellation border with Taurus and Aries. The nebula is visible as a hazy patch in a small telescope, while a larger aperture will show a pair of dark nebulae designated Barnard 1 and Barnard 2. It is associated with a dark cloud L1450 (Barnard 205). Estimates of the distance to this nebula range from 980–1,140 ly (300–350 pc).

This nebula is in the western part of the Perseus molecular cloud and is a young region of very active star formation, being one of the best-studied objects of its type. It contains a fairly typical hierarchy of star clusters that are still embedded in the molecular cloud in which they formed, which are split into two main sub-groups to the north and south. Most of the infrared emission is happening in the southern part of the nebula. A significant portion of the stars seen in the infrared are in the pre-main sequence stage of their evolution.

Source: Wikipedia

I must admit, dark nebulae are one of the hardest deep-sky objects to process. These dust patches are such a pain to enhance. I needed several iterations and countless hours of YouTube tutorial to reach this result. Obviously, there’s still plenty of room for improvement, but I’m overall petty happy.

To process this image, I mainly used two tutorials/techniques. The first is a YouTube tutorial called “Hytham's Dark Dust Tutorial”, in which we follow a complete workflow of the Iris Nebula. The goal is to enhance dark structures in the image using wavelets and histograms. The second technique is the famous Adams Block’s Star De-emphasis, which helped me keeping the stars under control.

As always, your advice and criticism are welcome!

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NGC1333, Vincent Savioz