Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1848  ·  IC 1871  ·  Sh2-198  ·  Sh2-199  ·  Sh2-201
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IC 1848, LBN 667, Soul Nebula, Robin Livermore
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IC 1848, LBN 667, Soul Nebula

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IC 1848, LBN 667, Soul Nebula, Robin Livermore
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IC 1848, LBN 667, Soul Nebula

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IC 1848, LBN 667, Soul Nebula, taken from my garden. I had originally intended 50 subs for this, but lost the last 19 due to cloud. Quite pleased with the image anyway, certainly an improvement on my first attempt at this last year.

The OIII signal was OK, but not as strong as I'd hoped for. I played around with a pseudo SHO image for a while, but went for this one in the end. The main issue I found was adding back the stars after processing the nebulosity. I think this is particularly a problem after performing HDRMultiScaleTransform in Pixinsight - the larger stars within the nebula have more blue ringing than I would like, and I'm not sure how to prevent this other than using CloneStamp, which I don't really want to do. Also overall star quality would be improved with an RGB star version, which I might try to add at some point this autumn.

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IC 1848, LBN 667, Soul Nebula, Robin Livermore