Witch's Head, IC 2118 (Anthony Quintile)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Eridanus (Eri) · Contains: 65 psi Eri · IC 2118 · NGC 1752 · NGC 1797 · NGC 1799 · NGC 1909 · PK205-26.1 · The star ψEri · Witch Head nebula · the Witch Head Nebula

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Witch's Head, IC 2118

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Witch's Head, IC 2118

Sorting the new Stellarvue. Oh, and my own ability to take a picture...

I experimented with shooting shorter exposures at lower ISO in an effort to reduce star bloat and get more dynamic range out of the Pentax. I am not sure if it had any effect because I haven't shot this combination before.

I usually shoot ISO400 and exposures in the 4-6 minute range. This was shot at ISO200, and 150 and 180 second exposures.

Best 95% in DSS, so 4 hours, 16 minutes net total exposure time.

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Description: Complete reprocess applying some newly learned techniques for stars and better color balance.

I am learning things so quickly now that every time I process a new image I want to go back to the last one and fix stuff!

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Description: That last one was a little too saturated dontcha think?

I fixed up some stars while I was at it.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	3324556
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RA (center)	05h04m51s.26
RA (top/left)	05h01m23s.82
RA (top/right)	05h08m28s.74
RA (bottom/right)	05h08m17s.61
RA (bottom/left)	05h01m15s.29

Dec (center)	-07°11′59″.2
Dec (top/left)	-08°34′04″.6
Dec (top/right)	-08°32′27″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	-05°49′50″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	-05°51′28″.8

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