Rick,

very good picture, amazing that you even got usable colour data for the flux
nebula.
Actually the flux nebula can be seen in my city version of NGC 6951, but
only with an extreme stretch of the image. I must have known that the nebula
was there, otherwise I would have removed the uneven background with an
artificial flat.

Stefan

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Normally the Integrated Flux Nebula is very faint and needs hours of
exposure time. For some reason most try to take it around M81 and M82
where it is quite faint. It is "very" bright around NGC 6951 yet no one
seems to try and pick it up here. For this image I used my normal 40
minutes of luminosity data, not the hours needed up by M81 and M82. I
did use 3 rather than my normal 2 frames of each color to help reduce
the noise in the color frames. Conditions were poor this night and I
meant to retake it but that never happened. I forgot about it for some
time. Turned out to be rather easy to process. Interesting galaxy in a
very nebulous field.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' RGB=3x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

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