Reflections in the Mist (Todd Stephens)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: 19 Tau) · 25 Tau) · 3 Cep) · 65 Tau) · 69 Tau) · 94 Tau · Barnard's Merope Nebula · IC 341 · IC 349 · IC 353 · IC 354 · IC 360 · Maia Nebula · Merope Nebula · NGC 1432 · NGC 1435 · Part of the constellation Taurus (Tau) · The star 37 Tau · The star Alcyone (η Tau · The star Alkalbain III (κ1 Tau · The star Alkalbain V (υ Tau · The star Atlas (27 Tau) · The star Electra (17 Tau) · The star Kabalfird (η Cep · The star Merope (23 Tau) · The star Taygeta (q Tau · The star τ Tau

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I re-shot one of my favorite regions in the sky last January when I was trying to get used to my new CEM40, spanning M45 through the Taurus molecular cloud, but didn't get enough integration time to pull out the level of detail I wanted. Fast forward 6 months, and now that I'm starting to get a better feel for PixInsight and the marvelous work of NoiseXTerminator, I thought I'd go back and try to reprocess it.

This is a three-panel mosaic I shot with my mono-modded Canon 60D and luminance filter, Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens at f/2.4, riding my CEM40. I shot color data with my 600D, my older Rokinon 135mm lens that has bad corner stars, and my iExos-100. I got about 2.5 hours with each camera on the middle and right panels the first night, and about 5 on the left-most panel the second night. Both cameras were collecting 120-second subs at ISO800. Calibrated and stacked in APP with 30 each flats, dark flats, and darks for each camera, then light pollution gradients removed and mosaicked and recomposed in APP as LRGB. I'm sure this can be done in PI, but I don't know how to do that yet.

My initial results in APP were noisy so I pretty much put the data on the back burner and chalked it up to a learning experience with the CEM40. But recently bringing the data into PI and running it through NoiseXTerminator, followed by Starnetv2 provided a surprisingly good result considering the short integration time and the banding I see with the mono Canon.

Hope you like it! C&C welcome and appreciated.

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Description: Did a little bit less heavy-handed star reduction, reprocessed fully in PixInsight.

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