Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  Gem A  ·  IC 443  ·  IC 444  ·  The star 12 Gem  ·  The star 8 Gem  ·  The star 9 Gem
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Jellyfish - IC443 in RGB, Paul Ecclestone-Brown
Jellyfish - IC443 in RGB
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Jellyfish - IC443 in RGB

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Jellyfish - IC443 in RGB, Paul Ecclestone-Brown
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Jellyfish - IC443 in RGB

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Description

The Supernova remnant called the jellyfish surrounded by other emission and reflection nebulae capturesd in RGB.

Most images of this are in narrow band - and are fantastic, but they lose the extra bonuses of the little reflection nebulae dotted around the field of view

RGB acquisition of the area is tricky because the nebulae are reasonably faint, and some of the stars are very birght - so as a first cut of this I have cropped the image to miss the bloom of those stars - further morecareful work is needed to get the full field image...  watch this space.

A fast scope and dark skies were needed for this image

SOme people may ask - why the different number of subs for R and G&B filters - well this is because the 6200 sensor is way more sensitive in the gren and blue portions of the spectrum, so less time is needed to gather the same number of phoptons across the spectrum in those areas.....

Also - why no luminance?  Because of that sensitivity thing.  The luminance filter takes light from the whole visible spectrum, and because of the higher sensitivity of the 6200's sensor to blue and green, the sampling is skewed to blue and green.  nincreasing the number of RGB subs compensates for that....

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Jellyfish - IC443 in RGB, Paul Ecclestone-Brown