LBN 438 in Lacerta imaged in HaLRGB (Greg Nelson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lacerta (Lac) · Contains: LBN 435 · LBN 438

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LBN 438 in Lacerta imaged in HaLRGB

So, I've been away a while attending to my mother's health needs and moving her from Alabama to Arizona to Assisted Living. I managed to get some acquisition time in over the last several months, but am just now getting in processing time. I feel out of practice, but was reasonably pleased with this image where I blended the Lum and Ha channels after stretching to make a synthetic luminance, and added Ha to the RGB image to bring out some lovely features of this relatively infrequently imaged region (although it was an Image of the Day in March 2023 https://astrob.in/8xa9iz/0/). I chose to leave the dusty region a little darker than some other images so I could show the lovely background Hydrogen alpha structures lurking around the dust. While this is classified as a "bright nebula" my eye stopped pushing the contrast short of a bright dusty region. Hope you enjoy.

Nice to be back and I hope to post several images as I have time over the next several weeks to process them.

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RA (center)	22h41m02s.925
RA (top/left)	22h41m58s.543
RA (top/right)	22h41m48s.657
RA (bottom/right)	22h40m06s.636
RA (bottom/left)	22h40m17s.318

Dec (center)	+37°45′40″.28
Dec (top/left)	+37°28′21″.76
Dec (top/right)	+38°04′06″.72
Dec (bottom/right)	+38°02′59″.99
Dec (bottom/left)	+37°27′11″.74

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