Heart Nebula (IC 1805) (Anthony Glas)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD14510 · HD14552 · HD14695 · HD14794 · HD14795 · HD14817 · HD15069 · HD15238 · HD15239 · HD15250 · HD15382 · HD15522 · HD15557 · HD15558 · HD15570 · HD15629 · HD15665 · HD15785 · HD15851 · HD16183 · HD16218 · HD236966 · IC 1795 · IC 1805 · LBN 645 · LBN 646 · LBN 647 · LBN 648 · LBN 650 · LBN 654 · And 20 more.

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Heart Nebula (IC 1805)

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Heart Nebula (IC 1805)

Heart Nebula
This was the 2nd ever imaging session with this setup, I decided to go for the Heart Nebula and try to get a full night's worth of images.
In processing this I wanted to go for a 50/50 combination of SHO & Foraxx SHO. I approached this using starless processing techniques (Jimmy's guide).
Corner stars are a bit funky due to BlurX's correction of the coma producing double/triple stars.
Imaged from a Bortle 5 area; acquisition using NINA; processed in PI.

Acquisition:
60 x 120s Ha
60 x 120s Oiii
60 x 120s Sii
6h 0m total

Equipment:
EQ6-R Pro
William Optics GT81 w/ 6AIII flattener
QHY163M w/ Antlia 3nm SHO

Processing:
WBPP
BlurX
Combined RGB
DBE
StarXTerminator
Combined SHO
Star removal, keeping nebulosity & creating HOO stars (w/ SPCC applied)
HistogramTransformation
CurvesTransformation
SCNR
Noise reduction & sharpening (NoiseX, MultiscaleLinearTransform)
Star addition using PixelMath (https://www.nightphotons.com/guides/star-addition)
DarkStructureEnhance
ACDNR
Final color corrections

Final
Original
B

B

Title: Increased Contrast

Description: Slight adjustment with raised contrast, appears much punchier on other monitors (that on paper have worse color calibration, not sure if that is expected?). So depending on the monitor either this one or the original looks better!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	8885841
PixInsight job	01XEYOWHWG4O8J9BB33UAOY02I522OZU
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h32m06s.25
RA (top/left)	02h22m29s.49
RA (top/right)	02h25m09s.18
RA (bottom/right)	02h41m00s.70
RA (bottom/left)	02h39m41s.00

Dec (center)	+61°22′43″.1
Dec (top/left)	+62°33′25″.3
Dec (top/right)	+59°59′08″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°09′36″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+62°44′44″.9

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