Blue submarine swallowed by cosmic whale - Sh2-261 SHO/HOO screen-blend (Georg G Albrecht)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: HD251900 · HD251925 · HD251979 · HD252004 · HD252088 · HD252089 · HD252135 · HD252245 · HD252359 · HD252540 · HD252678 · HD252791 · HD252841 · HD252842 · HD252905 · HD252906 · HD252954 · HD252974 · HD252975 · HD41997 · LBN 862 · LBN 863 · LBN 864 · LDN 1587 · Sh2-261

Blue submarine swallowed by cosmic whale - Sh2-261 SHO/HOO screen-blend

A bit of an unusual processing approach for this image as I am getting slightly tired of the Hubble palette

After processing the nebula in a typical SHO manner, I tried an HOO version and seeing the color and contrast differences in the core, I decided to try a screen blend of the two images. I think the outcome is pretty nice, especially as orange is one of my favorite colors.
To the acquisition: This fall has not been gentile to us west coast imagers, at least not in my area. Much more clouds and humidity during the nights. For counting average seeing, I almost didn't need both hands or all fingers thereof. I blame the softness of the image all to the seeing conditions. While drizzling x2 and using BXT helped some, I think this target could show much more detain with my rig. Well, good all these targets come back a year later...

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PixInsight job	XQPQYM7ZFBUE55RPO1HZDWS4E55URAG8
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h09m10s.631
RA (top/left)	06h06m58s.744
RA (top/right)	06h11m24s.156
RA (bottom/right)	06h11m22s.906
RA (bottom/left)	06h06m56s.585

Dec (center)	+15°44′11″.30
Dec (top/left)	+15°22′11″.67
Dec (top/right)	+15°22′48″.39
Dec (bottom/right)	+16°06′06″.87
Dec (bottom/left)	+16°05′31″.34

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