Perseus Molecular Cloud NGC1333 to IC348 (John Noble)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: 11.77 · 337 Devosa · 38 Per) · 38 omi Per · Alatik (ο Per · Ati · Atik · B1 · B2 · B202 · B203 · B204 · B205 · B206 · B3 · B4 · B5 · HD21110 · HD21229 · HD21483 · HD21834 · HD21864 · HD22124 · HD22195 · HD22360 · HD22418 · HD22781 · HD22963 · HD23051 · HD23244 · And 95 more.

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Perseus Molecular Cloud NGC1333 to IC348

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Perseus Molecular Cloud NGC1333 to IC348

This is a wide field shot of the NGC1333 to IC348 region in Perseus taken from a Bortle 3 site in Frisco NC with a William Optics Z61 and ASI 6200 MM camera. At roughly 5 hours of LRGB exposure I needed more time and will try and get more data. At first I was disappointed that I couldn't pull out more detail in the nebulosity but in the end I concluded that the focal length was probably working against me here. Most of the really nice shots on Astrobin are at the ~ 500 mm FSQ 106 FL. I did download a data pack from Telescope live (FSQ with reducer) to see if more exposure would help things but other than improve the SN a bit I wasn't able to get that nice whispy dust so I just posted my own data. Thanks for looking this certainly was different from a processing point of view there is just so much going on!

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Description: I reworked this using PI for color balance and gradient removal then finished it off in PS. A bit less saturated and a bit more detail. Still not enough data though!

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Description: Ok I think my obsession with this data set is done now! I just wanted to see how much I could get out of it with PI. Processing was fairly simple: LRGB, DBE, PCC and then Local Histogram Equalization, Dark Spot Enhancement and NoiseXterminator on the starless frames. I then took the layers into PS and combined them with a few saturation tweaks etc and finally some sharpening on the bright nebula. I used curves on the stars only frame to pull down the halos.

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RA (center)	03h36m05s.21
RA (top/left)	03h23m45s.49
RA (top/right)	03h47m40s.66
RA (bottom/right)	03h48m52s.67
RA (bottom/left)	03h24m03s.44

Dec (center)	+31°34′59″.9
Dec (top/left)	+29°57′22″.7
Dec (top/right)	+29°42′51″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+33°08′09″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°23′07″.9

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