Crescent Nebula SHO/RGB (& HOO & HOORGB) (Pam Whitfield)

Crescent Nebula SHO/RGB (& HOO & HOORGB)

Revision title: reprocessed in PI with NSG and x2 drizzle

Had a late night business video conference and it was a clear evening so.......

Only got 2.5hrs before the cloud rolled in but better than nothing - a definite plus point for automation!
This really needs another night or two but I can't be sure it'll get it so I processed it anyway. Some Sii would have been nice but with limited time it didn't seem worthwhile.

Revision.
Collected more Ha and Oiii data together with a bit of RGB. Rev B is a RGBHOO combination done in APP. Rev D is the same APP stacks processed in Pixinsight

Revision 2. Collected some Sii data. Played with Star XTerminator plugin for a SHO/RGB image

B

Description: Added some more Ha and Oiii as well as collecting about an hour of RGB the other night between clouds to improve the star colour. Processed this one using the star removal in APP on the Ha and Oiii channels before combining as HOORGB in APP again. I used a touch of red and green as a luminance to bring up the nebulosity a little. Can't say I'm happy with what saving as a PNG does to the colour but...

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E

Description: Got a chance to add some Sii data - not the greatest conditions but beggars can't be choosers... Also an opportunity to have a play with the trial for the Star XTerminator plugin

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F

Description: Managed to get another couple of hours of narrow-band data on this and have used the Crescent data to get stuck into different Pixinsight capabilities. The colour scheme is rather different from usual but I rather like the contrast in the different regions of background nebulosity - that might put me in a minority of one! ;-)

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G

Title: reprocessed in PI with NSG and x2 drizzle

Description: continuing my 'playing around' with Pixinsight with some old data. I think I'm a confirmed fan of NSG!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6537058
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RA (center)	20h12m06s.80
RA (top/left)	20h14m54s.23
RA (top/right)	20h14m53s.75
RA (bottom/right)	20h09m14s.50
RA (bottom/left)	20h09m21s.93

Dec (center)	+38°21′36″.3
Dec (top/left)	+37°37′31″.3
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