IC443 Jellyfish Nebula

[groberts]

After months of cloud and thus partly motivated by desperation, I managed to grab some limited imaging time over x4 nights of IC443 the Jellyfish at the end of March / early April before it disppeared over the western horizon for another year.  Notwithstanding the problems, I'm pleased with the resulting HOO image (+ Ha false luminance and RGB stars) and will be hoping to convert this to an SHO image at some later date.

Whilst IC443 is obviously the star of the show, the significant nebulosity behind it plays an important role in the image but I'm unable to find anything written about it - would be interested in any advice / comments on this feature?

Graham

 

AZ-EQ GT mount + William Optics GT81 & 0.80 focal reducer + ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool + 31mm Chroma filters etc.

Processing: DSS + PixInsight + Photoshop + Starnet + Topaz AI Denoise

Total integration 6hrs 02min:

Ha x15 & OIII x12 @ 600secs

L x11 + R x11 + G x9 + B x11 @ 120 secs