M16 Collaboration as part of astrobiscuit's Big Amateur Telescope Project (Ryan)

M16 Collaboration as part of astrobiscuit's Big Amateur Telescope Project

This image is the results of a collaboration on a project started by Astrobiscuit (https://www.youtube.com/c/Astrobiscuit/featured) called the Big Amateur Telescope project.

The idea behind the Big Amateur Telescope is that amateur astronomers can share data with each other and produce images that are better than we could do on our own. You can find us on Discord at: https://discord.gg/k3YcPxAF.

While it is a collaboration, I just captured the data and posted it to the community. The hard part (the processing) was done by Charles the telescope boy#1528 (Discord) with some help from Admiral Octavio#2063 (Discord).

This image is the combination of data that I captured using a William Optics FLT 132 on a CEM70. Acquired with an ASI294mm camera with Astrodon narrowband filters.

For processing, Admiral Octavio#2063 (Discord) took my H, Sii, and Oiii stacks and did some additional preprocessing and handed it off to Charles the telescope boy#1528 (Discord). And that is where the real magic happened. Using the iconic Hubble “pillars of creation” image as reference, he spent about 12 hours pixel peeping very small sections of the image, adjusting color, contrast, brightness levels, and some iris blur to eek out the faintest of detail and to match the Hubble reference image.

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

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