IC 1848 - Soul Nebula (Kris_N)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1848 · IC 1871

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IC 1848 - Soul Nebula

Revision title: IC 1848 - Soul Nebula - Foraxx

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IC 1848 - Soul Nebula

Revision title: IC 1848 - Soul Nebula - Foraxx

Here is a picture of the Soul Nebula which I took over a few clear nights in Nov 2023. I have tried a few new things and approaches in PixInsight when processing and I am happy with the outcome, this software keeps getting better and better. I thought this day would never come, but I am finally happy with the stars. It was really gusty when I was collecting the RGB data and I had to discard many subs, they still came out really nice. I always wondered how to produce these nice stars with the soft glow around them without having to use convolution and I think I cracked it. I also figured out how to nicely boost blue stars saturation which I have to say has been a challenging thing to do and I was never completely happy with the results I was getting. Finally, I did not use any of the star reduction techniques apart from a subtle initial tweak in BXT. This has definitely been a step in a right direction for me when it comes to the processing of stars, I will still keep on trying to improve them.

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Title: IC 1848 - Soul Nebula - Foraxx

Description: Reprocessed in the Foraxx Palette.

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