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NGC1333 Spirit of Chaos

A view on NGC1333: an intruiging world of chaos.
The level of complexity and action is amazing in this object.

It’s integrated during 4 nights of imaging at two locations, 2 full nights of monochrome in November /December and 2 half nights of color end of January. Unfortunately between the two camera’s the camera rotation angle changed, creating a 30° rotation.

For completeness the mono and full RGB image have been added seperatly as versions B and C.
A million thanks for the image processing done by Jean Lammertyn in PixInsight.

NGC1333 in Perseus “Spirit of Chaos” full LRGB 19hrs+

NGC1333 about 12hrs20m of monochrome 120s subs locations: Meldert & Grandpré.

NGC1333 “Spirit of Chaos” RGB only about 8hrs+ Location Grandpré

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LBN628 near Polaris

This is a classic LBN object, ‘Lynds’ Bright Nebula”. The Lynds’ Catalog of Bright Nebulae.

I call it the ‘Salamander’ 🙂 you can see a Salamander-like creature unwrapping itself from the dust clouds. A clear Salamander head, and the fore- and back paws stick out

What is bright about it? it’s disputable. ‘Bright’ should be read as opposed to Dark Nebula (LDN). But these interstellar dust and molecular cloud type of nebula are pretty dark. They reflect the light from stars.

This image was obtained in Grandpré on February 1 and 2 (color). SQM 20,70 and the second night 20,50

Equipment: Esprit 120 @ F/7 ZWO ASI2600MC About 10 hours on a GM1000 mount no guiding.