Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  IC 468  ·  NGC 2359  ·  Sh2-298
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Thor's Helmet, Paul Hancock
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Thor's Helmet

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Thor's Helmet, Paul Hancock
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Thor's Helmet

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I managed 2 hours of data at our clubs dark sky site. I got an hour of decent Ha data then switched to Oiii and the focuser slipped, so I had to manually focus as best as I could. Managed another hour of fairly average Oiii data.

In PixInsight I used deconvolution on the Oiii data to try and gain a little something back and after a gentle masked stretch removed the stars using Starnet++. Some clone stamping was need to remove some artifacts left by starnet++ and the soft stars, I then added the Ha stars back.

The image isn't perfect but given the issues I had I'm happy to at least see how this target frames up. Looking forward to gathering some good data on this target in the future.

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Thor's Helmet, Paul Hancock