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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Gloriously dark, clear skies of excellent transparency and seeing allowed me to finish the Fossil Footprint Nebula project last night. This image is the result of three nights, or 832 minutes of integration. There is a great deal of detail in this nebula, and I think were I to spend several more nights on it I would find yet more detail, but alas other projects need the observatory's time. The image is processed in LRGB, sticking insomuch as possible to the nebula's natural color, and just pulling down the green channel a bit to differentiate the different regions.
Imaged using a Celestron C8, Player One Ares-M, ZWO LRGB filters, and a Sky-Watcher EQ6R.
You can see the full res version at the Sky Story Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/x9h798/
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After weeks of crunching the math, I have confirmed what is the mysterious material inside black holes. It's hotdogs! It's obvious, when you think about it. No one knows what's inside a hotdog on Earth, and physics is the same everywhere in the universe, so what's inside a black hole is hotdogs.
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I was deeply unsatisfied with the color balance of the Fossil Footprint Nebula, so I reprocessed it using the hue composite early on in the low frequency information. I am much happier with this color balance. It better represents the LRGB palette I am generally after. I am having to force some of the color where the information is lacking, hence the over-dark reds bottom and left. And you can see the image is yet lacking high frequency information in the mid-luminance ranges around the bright core where detail is fuzzy. One more night might do it. Two for sure. We're supposed to get clear weather around 2300 hrs tonight, so fingers crossed.
The full res version of the current project status is on the Sky Story Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/x9h798/
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We have had a lot of superb weather over the last 30 days. I've been able to gather so much information I still haven't been able to develop it all. This is the result of two nights on NGC 1491, a.k.a. the Fossil Footprint Nebula. I have to confess, I don't see the footprint.
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I suppose I should take it as a compliment that every couple weeks someone posts that my voice is too good and must be AI . . . Or . . . maybe I'm an AI. I'll have to check my programming.
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Today's video will be delayed till later today or tomorrow morning due to last night's unprecedented clear skies with excellent seeing falling on a moonless night, which allowed me to get more information on the subject of the video. I am processing and developing that information now, but it takes several hours.
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What started out to be a quick one night shot ended up turning into 5 nights on this fascinating and complex DSO, NGC 6853, aka the Dumbbell Nebula. It is a planetary nebula being formed by a dying star; a progenitor white dwarf at its core. During this time, I gathered about a thousand minutes of integration after aggressive culling. The image was produced from LRGB data shot under dark skies. This planetary nebula has extreme variation in luminosity. The core is very bright (thanks in no small part to its white dwarf progenitor), there are two layers of very different luminosity in regions I have come to call the rim and the border, and what is known as the "wings" is on another level of dimness. The central region is very bright and often shows up as a haze. To peel back the bright haze and reveal the inner workings of the nebula, I had to develop the information six times, once for each RGB degree of brightness, and once for each L degree of brightness. The brightness-calibrated layers were frequency split then composited back together, which allowed for the fine division of information necessary to reveal the core. The surrounding space was force-darkened via luminosity compositing to enhance the view of the nebula which has a great deal happening in its subtle shades of structure. This process reveals the white dwarf, the cusped knots, what are probably the poles of the white dwarf and the layers of mass being cast off by the dying star.
YouTube often turns my blacks bluish, though. The properly color and light balanced full res image can be viewed at the Sky Story Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/okc7jk/K/
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The colorful Fuzzy Butterfly open star cluster is very near to the LDN 1337 dark nebula. I love this pair of structures which naturally bring out a beautiful contrast between light and color in one structure, and detail hidden among the dark lane of stardust. This image was the result of one night of imaging resulting in 7 hours of subs, culled to six hours due to nearly ideal and moonless conditions. You can see the full res version at the Sky Story Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/w368fw/
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Two final versions of the Dumbbell Nebula are now on Astrobin. I'd love your opinions. Which do you prefer? You can see both at this link: www.astrobin.com/okc7jk/E/
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This image is the result of two nights of integration, the first night was full of wind and bad seeing conditions and 75% of the subs had to be culled. The second night was exquisite and few subs had to be culled. The final result was 417 sixty second high quality subs in LRGB that contributed to total integration. You can see the final result at the Sky Story Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/okc7jk/
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