IC 2944 the Running Chicken Nebula and NGC 3766 the Pearl Cluster - SHO with RGB Stars (Adam Cox)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Centaurus (Cen) · Contains: IC 2872 · IC 2944 · IC 2948 · NGC 3766 · Pearl Cluster · The star λ Cen · lam Cen Nebula

IC 2944 the Running Chicken Nebula and NGC 3766 the Pearl Cluster - SHO with RGB Stars, Adam Cox

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IC 2944 the Running Chicken Nebula and NGC 3766 the Pearl Cluster - SHO with RGB Stars

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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IC 2944 the Running Chicken Nebula and NGC 3766 the Pearl Cluster - SHO with RGB Stars

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

Target: IC 2944 the Running Chicken Nebula and NGC 3766 the Pearl Cluster - SHO with RGB Stars

This is my first time integrating RGB stars to a narrowband image with a star reduction process applied.

I followed Bill Blanshan's (AnotherAstroChannel) tutorial and applied his PixelMath scripts from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqnONWVwf-A&t=6s

Very happy with the results!

25.5 hrs integration total:
S x 80 x 360 sec
H x 80 x 360 sec
O x 80 x 360 sec
R x 10 x 180 sec
G x 10 x 180 sec
B x 10 x 180 sec

Date: Imaged over June 2023 to February 2024 from the ACT region, Australia.

Equipment:

Scope: William Optics Zenithstar 81 with Flattener
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Filters: 2" Antlia 4.5nm Edge Narrowband Filters and Antlia RGB Pro 2"
Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Guidescope: SV106 60mm Achromatic Guide Scope
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM

Processing:
Processed in PixInsight:

WBPP with 2x Drizzle and Autocrop enabled
BlurXTerminator @ AI V4.0 @ 0.5 Sharpen Non-stellar per SHO and RGB channel
LRGB Combine for SHO and RGB
StarXTerminator for star removal
AnotherAstroChannel PixInsgight scripts for star combination
Histogram Transform for stretching and saturation
NoiseXTerminator @ 0.5 Denoise

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