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      RCW52
      Wallpaper author:
      Denis Vandensavel

      22 May 2024

      RCW52

      RCW52 is a very nice star formation region, in particular when viewed through SHO filters. It is challenging to post-process after linear fit, as the left hand side of the background is dominated by the blue colour, and the right-hand side by the green and red colours. I mostly worked at decreasing the orange taint to the right. There are also strange dark arcs starting from the central part of the nebula and extending to the bottom-right side. They are slightly visible in the Ha raw pictures and add up together with the ImageIntegration process. I changed many parameters in ImageIntegration but could not find a fix to that problem. But overall, the post-processing was fun to perform!

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      RCW 52

      11 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CMOS
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Emission Nebula
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        QHY 600M
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 161.54791 Dec -58.6533
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        29 Feb 2024 - 17 Apr 2024
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Halpha2955h25m66
      SII3055h35m66
      OIII3005h25m65

      RCW52