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A dusty M45 - processed to bring up the background details, Pam Whitfield
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A dusty M45 - processed to bring up the background details

A dusty M45 - processed to bring up the background details, Pam Whitfield
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A dusty M45 - processed to bring up the background details

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This is such as drastically different image from the earlier processing of this 2018 data that I'm uploading as a 'new' image. The 2018 data used long exposures of 600s L and 180 bin2 RGB - the 2022 subs on M45 were much shorter by comparison and didn't add anything useful to a stack.
It was processed in PI with NSG - not drizzled with the bin2 data being in there. The ColorCorrectedHDRMT script was used to tone down the brightness of the blue in the reflection nebula a bit to let all that dust stand out.
After screening out a few subs this image was left with
9x 600s L 1x1
14x 180s R 2x2
16x 180s G 2x2
10x 180s B 2x2
Finding clean background to neutralize proved a bit challenging!

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A dusty M45 - processed to bring up the background details, Pam Whitfield

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