Owl cluster

Image Description and Details : Here’s some space gems 💎 the open star cluster NGC 457 also known as the owl cluster, it is an open star cluster 7,900 light away from the sun. It has an estimated age of 21 million years.

Taken Northwest Missouri September 30-2022 at the Backyard country observatory, using a Orion 8 inch f3.9 newtonian astrograph, with a coma correcter. Canon 60d unmodified, autoguider orion starshoot 60mm guide scope, all on a celestron AVX mount.

5 hours of 3 minutes subs RAW exposures, ISO-1250

Processing. Pixlinsight dynamic crop, dynamic background ext, non linear stretch in histrogram tran, NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator, added luminous mask experimental transformation, star mask using the morphology trans for star reduction, added a luminous mask used curves, for saturation’s,
Photoshop: levels, selective color.

Copyright: Jared Bowens