Thor's Helmet - NGC-2359 (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Canis Major (CMa) · Contains: HD57027 · HD57057 · IC 468 · LBN 1040 · LBN 1041 · NGC 2359 · Sh2-298

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Thor's Helmet - NGC-2359

Revision title: Cropped Version HOO

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Thor's Helmet - NGC-2359

Revision title: Cropped Version HOO

This has been an ongoing project that I've finally called it quits on for this year. So low in the sky at 22 degrees altitude, it's just so low. Any way, I'm glad I at least shot it finally. I've processed this in APP, post processed in PI & Gimp. I may go back and try a star reduction filter. This was all narrowband data using my NBZ dual band filter.

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Description: Used a very conservative sharpening filter.

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Description: After looking at it online I noticed there was more green in the background, so I made a green channel adjustment.

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Description: I reprocessed original data to try and bring out more detail in the main part of the nebula and did a star reduction. I also used what I'd call a super luminance layer to help smoothen out as well as sharpen the details in the nebula.

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Description: Cropped: Inside Thor's Helmet

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Title: Thor HOO W/Color Calibrated Stars

Description: I've never been a big fan of this object in this color pallet, but I had to give it a try. Processed the nebula in HOO and color calibrated stars in PI and blended with Pixel Math.

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Title: BMX Processing

Description: I did a complete reprocess of this image and I'm blown away at how much more detail I was able to pull out. Sure love this BMX! I also incorporated SPCC which I had never done on this image so I feel the colors are more accurate.

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Title: Reprocessed HOO

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Title: Cropped Version HOO

Description: Cropped and adjusted the brightness and contrast a bit

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	9074754
PixInsight job	THP2IE8UDMLK9PCAMAPJ7KQVUWPSSWNG
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	07h18m30s.337
RA (top/left)	07h16m38s.106
RA (top/right)	07h18m41s.133
RA (bottom/right)	07h20m22s.679
RA (bottom/left)	07h18m19s.572

Dec (center)	-13°12′49″.96
Dec (top/left)	-13°13′20″.81
Dec (top/right)	-13°40′05″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	-13°12′17″.46
Dec (bottom/left)	-12°45′37″.80

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