What can you do to make a wide field image more interesting? Not that I do not like wide fields, but it is very difficult to make out some details without zooming in significantly. And then you see that at 925mm focal length not much detail is visible. 

I took this image for several reasons, one of them to compare it with the 2x Powermate images that I started to like more and more. I know I took way less integration time for this one, bad weather prevented me to gather more and ... I had to throw away a bunch of L raws due to a unfortunate dust bunny right in the middle of the cluster, and processing it out seems to be almost impossible, well, at least with my skill level. Still ... the result was a bit disappointing.

On the other hand, the wide field is quite nice, lots of galaxies in the area. As a lot of times I looked over @Gary Imm 's catalog and read some interesting facts about it (https://www.astrobin.com/387761/?nc=collection&nce=1293). NGC 4170 is marked as star in "The Sky Live" (https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ngc4170-object), while Simbad names it a "Low Surface Brightness Galaxy" (http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+4170). Not sure if I agree with Simbad on this one 😊.

When you plate solve this area it shows "Box, Box, Box" right over Hickson 61, since it looks like a little box, really annoyed me, hence I left it out on my plate solve version C. 

Also interesting is Abell 1495 on where it is located. It is not the Hickson 61 area, more to the left and a little bit up.


Btw ... when you google Abell 1495 @Gary Imm 's image comes up second 😊😊😊.

Additional information, maybe someone likes and wants to use it: I wanted to frame the slightly magnified areas with a white border, and I thought that this would be somewhere available as a common thing. Well ... I did not find it in either PI or PS (maybe I was not thorough enough in my search); so I wrote a little PixelMath routine:

iif(x() < s || y() < s || x() >= width($T)-s || y() >= height($T)-s,1,$T);
with s = the width of the frame. Replace target image needs to be selected.
* This image was not submitted for IOTD consideration