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M16, M17 and friends, Marc Ricard

M16, M17 and friends

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M16, M17 and friends, Marc Ricard

M16, M17 and friends

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I took this image last year on a night where the transparency was exceptional right to the horizon. Unfortunately processing proved to be very difficult. There was a light pollution gradient to get rid of that was tricky given all the star clouds and dark nebulosity. I then needed to use very gentle adjustment curves and levels to bring out those star clouds gradually followed by 4 separate screen mask layers with an opacity of only 25%. By biggest difficulty was achieving a good colour balance. In spite of the exceptional transparency, this portion of the sky is quite low at my latitude and the blue channel needed to be stretched significantly to even things out.

Even now I still find it looks a bit like a dog's breakfast and I'm not too found of the way I composed it. On to the next!

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M16, M17 and friends, Marc Ricard