Iris Nebula NGC 7023 (Daniel Carter)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD200775 · Iris Nebula · LBN 475 · LBN 483 · LBN 487 · LDN 1168 · LDN 1170 · LDN 1171 · LDN 1172 · LDN 1173 · LDN 1174 · NGC 7023 · T Cep

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Iris Nebula NGC 7023

Revision title: BlurXterminator

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Iris Nebula NGC 7023

Revision title: BlurXterminator

This was my first light project for my FSQ-106EDX4 at native focal length. I imaged over several nights to get this amazing nebula. The dust was difficult to get processed and I think I can still improve on it!

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Title: Iris Nebula v2

Description: I didn't like the purplish magenta blob near the middle of the dust cloud so I reprocessed the image and made it look a little nicer. Pixinsight is a never ending learning curve for me!

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Title: Updated Dust Processing

Description: I reprocessed again with more focus on bringing out the color of the dust and adding a little contrast. I also reduced the stars a bit since they seemed to take away focus from the dust clouds.

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Title: Another Revision

Description: I didnt like how I blew out the center of the Iris Nebula in my last revision so I went back over the data and re-processed it again. I tried to be much more careful in not blowing out the highlights. It is definitely still a work in progress.

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Title: BlurXterminator

Description: I finally tried out BlurXterminator on this image. So far I am impressed with the new tool!

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7309462
PixInsight job	WUUZH7JJMI80V4UK7K89CTPNSSGZOJD5
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h01m34s.42
RA (top/left)	21h02m38s.61
RA (top/right)	20h48m13s.18
RA (bottom/right)	21h00m35s.94
RA (bottom/left)	21h15m16s.40

Dec (center)	+68°10′05″.2
Dec (top/left)	+69°27′29″.2
Dec (top/right)	+67°49′54″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+66°52′35″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°26′05″.2

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