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NGC 2174


lukepower

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NGC 2174 (also known as Monkey Head Nebula) is an H II[1] emission nebula located in the constellation Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175.[1] It is thought to be located about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. 

This is a narrowband image, sum of 60 minutes exposures in Ha7, O3 and S2. Yeah I know, more data, but I wanted to try ... This is actually my first narrowband image, I am not satisfied with the colors and had some severe RBI issues with the images... Need to work on that...

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Okay, I went through all those images again, this time using FLI's RBI flooding in the camera. I had severe ghost images in my raw images, so I had to re-take them with RBI mitigation. Of course, I had to take new appropriate darks with the same exposure time. Also, I am now calibrating the flats with a "normal" method (scaled darks with no RBI flashing). The results are definitively improving, especially the oh-so uneven background (caused partially by RBI) is now better :)

 

Monkey-green.jpgMonkey-red.jpg

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