Witch Head Nebula North

by Linda

Objects in field: 12.97, 176 Iduna, MQ J050351.80-061809.3, MQ J050421.69-063116.7, MQ J050426.56-063009.2, MQ J050500.14-063342.0, MQ J050515.50-060734.9, MQ J050524.31-062943.3, MQ J050650.38-065413.8, MQ J050702.68-062133.7, MQ J050705.07-062547.7, MQ J050709.87-062515.4, MQ J050710.14-062740.4, MQ J050721.24-062011.2, MQ J050723.46-063020.7, MQ J050725.57-061533.1, MQ J050727.02-061948.0, MQ J050734.65-062624.0, PK205-26.1, PS1 J050354.14-060825.0, QBQS J050732.14-065802.2, SDSS J050803.03-060750.6, WISEA J050340.48-063221.5, WISEA J050342.75-070918.4, WISEA J050401.39-062900.4, WISEA J050402.19-065547.6, WISEA J050436.33-061544.2, WISEA J050446.81-062032.4, WISEA J050454.48-063051.2, WISEA J050511.80-062539.8, WISEA J050516.90-063450.0, WISEA J050601.96-060754.1, WISEA J050622.19-061740.3, WISEA J050650.53-061320.4, WISEA J050653.28-064056.4, WISEA J050711.43-065530.1, WISEA J050725.09-061417.1, WISEA J050733.41-064814.1, WISEA J050743.52-063847.4, WISEA J050818.17-064428.9, WISEA J050819.82-065613.9, WISEA J050824.34-063446.2, WISEA J050841.65-064506.4, WISEA J050842.20-062846.9, WISEA J050845.22-061752.5

Equipment: Astro-Physics Riccardi-Honders Astrograph 305mm f/3.8, FLI ML16200

Integration: 22h 10m

Sadly, the entire nebula is far too large for the FoV and it would take a 4 panel mosaic to fit the whole thing (or a rotator and a 2 panel mosaic). But, it’s still great to get a close up look at the “lower half” of the “head”. Processing: L: BXT SXT DBE (neither GC nor MGC gave good results) GHS NXT RGB: BXT SPCC SXT (extracting stars) DBE NXT GHS Image Blend script to add in L PS layers: stars…