Wallpaper author:
GEORGE YAEGER
20 Apr 2026
CED 54 Bright Hii Region
stacked it with DSS and then stretched it with Gimp. I had to adjust the stretching for the Halpha and Sii components. I used the HOS mapping to RGB. I aligned the data with Siril and also used the denoise Siril command. Lastly I post processed it with Gimp.
Dataset from which the image was processed
CED 54
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Star-forming Regions
- Camera............................................................................................................................QHY 600M
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 82.8753 Dec 9.8256
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Spain
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................15 Mar 2023 - 19 Mar 2023
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| OIII | 600 | 40m | 4 |
| Halpha | 600 | 40m | 4 |
| SII | 600 | 40m | 4 |