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Tadpole Nebula in SHO, Jonathan Young
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Tadpole Nebula in SHO

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Tadpole Nebula in SHO

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IC 410 - Minimally processed, full resolution in standard SHO.  ~18hrs integrated with 3 hrs culled.

A quick workflow outline is below:
52 x 600s Ha
30 x 600s S2
25 x 600s O3
dithered each sub
control via NINA & VNC viewer Mele2 with SSD.

Siril:
Each sub apply Dark, Flat and background gradient extraction.
Stacked with weighted WSC and min/max 4.3 SD
Simple Histogram stretch in Siril for each channel.  Black point set to zero clip.  

25 minutes.

Startools:
Composite Synthetic L,SHO using pre-stretched channels.   Weighted by sub count.
HDR (brightness+color) lowest strength.
Sharpen (small scale with mask)
Color balance for SHO

15 min.

Lightroom:
exposure -50 to slightly reduce star bloat.
slight bump to texture, clarity and dehaze
saturation/vibrancy boost
Light detail noise and color noise reduction

5 min.

45 min Total .
16 core Ryzen 32GB ram and NVMe SSD.

revD: 
exposure -45 vs -50
vibrance and saturation slight reduction (80 to 70 and 40 to 35).  Slight shift toward red and blue.

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Tadpole Nebula in SHO, Jonathan Young