Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ara (Ara)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6188  ·  NGC 6193  ·  NGC 6200  ·  Rim Nebula
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NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5, Alex Woronow
NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5, Alex Woronow

NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5

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NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5, Alex Woronow
NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5, Alex Woronow

NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5

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NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5

OTA: TAO 130 (T10) Australia
Camera: SBIG STX16803 CCD
Observatory: iTelescope
Date of Capture: Aug 2021
Date of Processing: Apr 2024

Exposures Used:
R: 4 x 300 sec
G: 4 x  "
B: 4 x  "
L:  x  "
H: 5 x 1800 sec
O: 18 x   "
S: 14 x   "
Total Exposure time: 10.3 hours
Image Width: 2d 46'

Processing Tools:
1.    Commercial: PixInsight, Topaz, Radiant Photo, PhotoDirector 365, 3DLUT Creator
2.    Pixinsight Addons: NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator, StarNet2, StarXTerminator
3.    My Scripts: NB_Assistant, AC_Restar, Subframe Weighting Tool (Excel w/ J. Hunt)

Processing Description:
The strange number of subframes in this free data set made processing challenging. I tried to construct an RGB image from the narrow- and wide-band data. That depicted pure chaos…but who wants pure chaos? This object is best rendered in narrowband, given this limited data set,  which is the image I have posted. There is also a gray-scale version (always better at revealing detail to our rod-dominated eyes). The HSO color image is color-realistic and has been photometrically color-calibrated. The stars are from the HSORGB color-realistic rendering that also received photometrically color calibration.

(Pardon the orientation of the image with N to the right…a personal preference dictated by the image content.)

Alex Woronow

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B

Title: Grayscale rendering

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NGC 6188 and Neighbors NGC 6164-5, Alex Woronow