Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  24 Aur  ·  24 phi Aur  ·  HD35633  ·  IC 417  ·  LBN 804  ·  LDN 1526  ·  Sh2-234  ·  The star φ Aur
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IC417 in SHO, GalacticRAVE
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IC417 in SHO

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IC417 in SHO, GalacticRAVE
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IC417 in SHO

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IC417 is usually imaged with a larger field of view, together with the more prominent IC405 and IC410. Here a go at larger focal length just focusing at IC417.
Processing this data, which I collected about nine month ago, turned out to be quite demanding as the data was plagued with multiple fairly bright halo/reflection caused by phi Aurigae, most likely from an interplay of the microlens array on top of the chip, the narrow band filters and the AR/IR protective window on the camera. At the end, using multiscale Gradient correction together with a wider field image of the same region turned out to be the most successful way so far to tame these reflections. For the color mapping I used a combination of 50% SHO and 50% foraxx.

Data were taken on  2023Feb 4, 5, and 6

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