Horsehead Nebula (Paul Macklin)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: B33 · Flame Nebula · Horsehead nebula · IC 434 · LBN 953 · LBN 954 · MQ J054119.67-021054.7 · MQ J054119.92-022130.6 · MQ J054145.48-022416.3 · NGC 2023 · Orion B · Sh2-277 · V0611 Ori · V0612 Ori · V0615 Ori · V0616 Ori · V0619 Ori

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Horsehead Nebula

Revision title: Compromise

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Horsehead Nebula

Revision title: Compromise

I've returned to an old favorite, working at the EdgeHD's native focal length.

This combines 16 hours of 10 min exposures using the Antlia Triband filter, processed with AstroPixelProcessor (stacking, background calibration, +/-star color calibration), PixInsight (BlurXTerminator), and photoshop (basic curves, contrast, NoiseExterminator, Topaz, unsharp mask).

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Title: Revised color processing

Description: I updated this by omitting the star color calibration in APP, which really skews the colors and loses some detail. Worked more on curves in photoshop to bring in the fuller blue details.

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C

Title: Improved color handling

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D

Title: Just a little more blue

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E

Title: Worked on the orange one.

Description: Worked to avoid washout in the blue reflection nebula. Made teh oranges redder.

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F

Title: New mixing

Description: I went back and remixed the color channels in APP before exporting and processing in photoshop. I think this gets tjhe balance of detail, blues in the reflection nebula, and reds in the overall scene

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G

Title: Compromise

Description: This overlays version F with 20% transparency (100% opacity) over version D. This gives me just a touch of the blues of the reflection nebula from F over the more natural colors and structure of Version D.

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Status	Advanced success
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PixInsight job	WFL86S3PSFAO8CT5LP7GZ4EP9SDXA2NI
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h41m18s.867
RA (top/left)	05h40m30s.903
RA (top/right)	05h40m30s.906
RA (bottom/right)	05h42m06s.844
RA (bottom/left)	05h42m06s.846

Dec (center)	-02°23′05″.73
Dec (top/left)	-02°08′06″.51
Dec (top/right)	-02°38′04″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	-02°38′03″.79
Dec (bottom/left)	-02°08′06″.54

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