SH2-140, LBN500 (Cep) HII "On the edge of the Cepheus Molecular Complex" - 8.83 hours OSC (John Jennings)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD211242 · HD211880 · HD212365 · LBN 500 · LBN 505 · LDN 1201 · Sh2-140

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SH2-140, LBN500 (Cep) HII "On the edge of the Cepheus Molecular Complex" - 8.83 hours OSC

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SH2-140, LBN500 (Cep) HII "On the edge of the Cepheus Molecular Complex" - 8.83 hours OSC

Had to go a little longer than my normal integrations to get the main details of SH2-140 and the nebulosity of LBN500 using only an UV/IR filter. I first processed a stack of 27 images and was able to produce a good image. I added 26 more images from the next night for the final here. The PixInsight Noise Evaluation script calculated a 25% reduction in the std. deviation for doubling the stack size. That seemed to help bring out the edge core details of SH2-140 and the detail and nebulosity in LBN500.

HISTORY       1   Stacking method SIGMA CLIP AVERAGE
HISTORY       2   De-mosaic bayer pattern used RGGB
HISTORY       3   Colour conversion: Bilinear interpolation interpolation.
EXPTIME    = 31800 / Total luminance exposure time in seconds.
SET-TEMP   = 0 / Set temperature used for luminance.
LUM_EXP    = 600 / Average luminance exposure time.
LUM_CNT    = 53 / Luminance images combined.
LUM_DARK   = 40 / Darks used for luminance.
LUM_FLAT   = 40 / Flats used for luminance.
LUM_BIAS   = 40 / Flat-darks used for luminance.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8341915
PixInsight job	Q4DOKLLBDQ2IB2OHYJZBAA7ZGMGIEKBY
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	22h19m05s.330
RA (top/left)	22h13m48s.858
RA (top/right)	22h24m23s.720
RA (bottom/right)	22h24m30s.934
RA (bottom/left)	22h13m38s.677

Dec (center)	+63°17′12″.38
Dec (top/left)	+62°52′37″.70
Dec (top/right)	+62°52′49″.37
Dec (bottom/right)	+63°41′05″.48
Dec (bottom/left)	+63°40′54″.27

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