SH 2-129 Flying Bat & Squid Nebula (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD201063 · HD201429 · HD202214 · HD202380 · HD239605 · HD239618 · HD239626 · LBN 445 · LBN 449 · LBN 453 · Sh2-129

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SH 2-129 Flying Bat & Squid Nebula

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This is an image I've been wanting to do for a very long time, but never had the right setup for it. I'm not sure that this is the correct setup but I gave it a try. This is a very difficult image to get the squid to come out well. It is in the OIII channel which is very very faint! Even though I have 21hrs on this I could still have used more integration time. I used my NBZ filter to pull out as much OIII data but I'm sure that an ALPT would have done better but I wasn't going to pull apart my EFW and install the one from my main rig. I may end up getting a second ALPT and sell the NBZ.
Anyway all data was processed in APP and I extracted the OIII and HA channels to combine them into this HOO version of this object. I'm still not 100% sure I'm done with it but for now this is what I have. I may go back and try pulling out the OIII some more.

Thanks for looking!

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Title: OIII Adjustments

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Description: This is a complete Reprocess of the original data. Much happier with this version and quit natural looking.

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Astrometry.net job	10057005
PixInsight job	Q89SKG07CXY4IGW724CC9ICSBP52EDU5
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h11m48s.84
RA (top/left)	21h21m50s.99
RA (top/right)	21h09m58s.47
RA (bottom/right)	21h01m38s.84
RA (bottom/left)	21h13m30s.56

Dec (center)	+59°59′15″.1
Dec (top/left)	+59°45′31″.2
Dec (top/right)	+61°14′53″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°10′08″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°43′36″.5

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