Westerhout 5 (Sharpless 2-199, LBN 667, Soul Nebula) is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia. Several small open clusters are embedded in the nebula: CR 34, 632, and 634 (in the head) and IC 1848 (in the body). The object is more commonly called by the cluster designation IC 1848.
Image:
Equipment/Software:
- Modified Nikon D90
- Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
- Sky-Watcher Tripod
- Sigma 500mm F4 with Lens Collar
- Intervalometer
- Bahintov Mask
- Intervalomter
- DIY lens hood
- Pixinsight
- Sharpcap
- All Sky Plate Solver
- Stellarium
Acquisition:
- ISO 1600, 500mm, F/4.0
- 91 x 2″ lights
- 50 Flats
- 200 Bias
- 50 Darks
Processing:
- Manually Stacked in Pixinsight
- Color Calibration
- Split into LRGB channels
- DBE on all channels
- Deconvolution and John Rista Denoise on all channels
- RGB channel combine
- Color Calibration
- Masked Strech
- Starnet on Stride 64, used pixelmath to create an image with just stars
- ArcsinH strech on starless image
- Curves on starless image
- Combined with Star image
- L combined with RGB image
- Star Reduction
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