Baby Eagle Nebula IC360 area (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 42 Tau · 44 Tau · B10 · B207 · B208 · B209 · B210 · B211 · B7 · IC 359 · IC 360 · LBN 775 · LBN 777 · LBN 779 · LBN 782 · LBN 786 · LDN 1484 · LDN 1486 · LDN 1489 · LDN 1491 · LDN 1495 · LDN 1498 · LDN 1499 · LDN 1501 · NGC 1508 · NGC 1539 · The star 36 Tau · The star 41 Tau · The star p Tau · The star ψ Tau · And 1 more.

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Baby Eagle Nebula IC360 area

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Finally clear on the new moon for almost two nights! Traveled to Chuchupate, SQM 21.09 was the best or Bortle 4.5

One of my shortest integration times lately, but finally at a dark site again! Joyous to walk around and behold the stars and Milky Way…forgot how much I need to do that. (walking was essential at cold at -3C) It was also the night of the peak meteor shower and saw a few really nice ones. Always a thrill.

This area of molecular cloud is near the Pleiades and full of dark and bright Lynds nebulas, variable stars and distant galaxies. I framed it to get LBN782, the blue reflection nebula in the upper right corner that’s part of Bernard 10 with Bernard 209, 211 and 214 nearby. I must go deep on LBN 782 with my 9.25HD someday. (not sure why the Bernard objects didn’t plate solve as had that turned on.) The galaxy IC359 at 180MLYs is fairly resolved for the focal length of 299mm. (I drizzle integrated at 1.3)

I did search the Bin for examples of how to process this area which caused me to stretch the nebulosity a bit more. I do like the resulting increased contrast.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a restful holiday season. Pray for peace. -john

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Description: cleaned up the noise...was from my luminance. had to almost start from scratch...thanks Rüdiger!

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	04h09m02s.76
RA (top/left)	04h17m31s.19
RA (top/right)	04h20m23s.24
RA (bottom/right)	04h00m04s.93
RA (bottom/left)	03h58m15s.92

Dec (center)	+26°22′13″.9
Dec (top/left)	+23°04′06″.5
Dec (top/right)	+29°14′53″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°38′07″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°26′10″.5

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