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NGC 6914 - Hydrogen Alpha emphasis, Mike Wiles
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NGC 6914 - Hydrogen Alpha emphasis

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One thing I did get accomplished at Portal last month was to collect the last little bit of data I wanted to get for my NGC 6914 project. I've been working on this since early August and this is a combined total of 86 subframes shot in 3 different locations in Arizona. It represents a total of 20 hours of camera time - 14 of it in Hydrogen Alpha alone. Because I was interested in really capturing the detail in the emission portion of the nebula and the dust lanes I blended the Hydrogen Alpha data with both the luminance and the red channel. This had the intended result of really emphasizing the contrast in the dust lanes and emission nebula - but at the cost of the reflection nebula that is typically seen all across images of this field.

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NGC 6914 - Hydrogen Alpha emphasis, Mike Wiles