Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Cocoon nebula  ·  IC 5146
The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146), Josh Woodward
The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)
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The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)

The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146), Josh Woodward
The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)
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The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146)

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Description

This is a wide(ish) view of IC 5146. It was captured over the course of five nights. It consists of:

220 x lum - 60s

50 x red - 180s

45 x green 180 s

43 x blue 180s

PREPROCESS

PixInsight

* BLINK to check for glaring anomalies

* SUBFRAME SELECTOR to weed out irregular or high FWHM frames

* Batch Preprocessing FD

PROCESS RGB

PixInsight (Linear)

* Linear Fit with red as reference

* Star Alignment with Lum as reference

* Dynamic Crop with Lum as reference

* ABE on each channel

* Channel Combination

* ABE

* Photometric Color Calibration with G2V as reference

* SCNR at 50%

* TGV Denoise with flattened lum mask

* MMT with strong protection mask of high signal areas

PROCESS LUM

* Dynamic Crop

* RGB Working Space

* ABE

* Deconvolution

* TGV Denoise with flattened mask

* MMT with strong mask to protect high signal areas

PixInsight (Stretched)

* Arcsinh Stretch on lum and RGB

* LRGB Combination

* ACDNR

* SCNR 100%

* HT to brighten image

* Color Saturation with combined range+star mask to reduce saturation (Arcsinh Stretch oversaturated stars)

* HDR Multiscale Transform

* Morphological Transform

* Dark Structure Enhance

PHOTOSHOP CC

* Raw Filter tweaks

* image size (50%)

* Save to jpeg

Comments

Sky plot

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Histogram

The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146), Josh Woodward

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ZWO ASI1600MM/QHY163M
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