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IC434 - The Horsehead Nebula, David Joyce
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IC434 - The Horsehead Nebula

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IC434 - The Horsehead Nebula

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I wanted to reprocess my image of this from October to see how I could improve and I’m really happy with the results! 

This was a tough one - I still wanted to use the hydrogen channel as the luminance layer but there’s no free lunch. Doing that would cause the beautiful reflection nebula NGC2023 (the blue region to the bottom left) to disappear. I had to get creative with masks and blending the natural red channel with the hydrogen to use as luminance to be able to get the best of both worlds - getting all that good Ha data and wispy regions along with NGC2023.

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IC434 - The Horsehead Nebula, David Joyce