SH2-132 - The Lion Nebula (Alex Ranous)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B369 · HD211070 · HD211430 · HD211643 · HD211982 · HD212043 · HD212183 · HD212986 · LBN 471 · LBN 473 · LDN 1150 · LDN 1154 · LDN 1156 · LDN 1161 · LDN 1163 · RW Cep · Sh2-132

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SH2-132 - The Lion Nebula

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I needed another target I could hit early in the evening as I waited for my current projects to rise high enough. Here's another target in Cepheus I had originally overlooked. In my initial attempt the nebula was lost in a sea of stars, like many targets in the Milky Way, so I shot some RGB for the stars to sub in. I use ArcsinhStretch for the initial stretch which keeps the star colors. I then stretched it some more with HistogramTransformation until they got the size I wanted.

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Description: I started a new project that didn't rise high enough for me until later in the evening, so I thought I'd start with gathering some more data for this in the meantime. Unfortunately thin clouds ruined most of the data, but I went ahead and reprocessed it anyway. I like the colors in this rendition better, though perhaps a bit too much in the blue.

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Description: I've seen a number of lovely Lion Nebulas come up in my astrobin feed, and it inspired me to grab some more data of my version and reprocess it.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8651824
PixInsight job	TSLTUTRJ70Z2U8HI5V8B77UY8WBXNNH3
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	22h18m43s.28
RA (top/left)	22h18m04s.91
RA (top/right)	22h10m16s.46
RA (bottom/right)	22h19m19s.95
RA (bottom/left)	22h27m26s.76

Dec (center)	+55°56′46″.3
Dec (top/left)	+57°17′09″.3
Dec (top/right)	+55°19′59″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+54°36′27″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°31′26″.7

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