Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B168  ·  Cocoon Nebula  ·  IC 5146  ·  LBN 424  ·  LDN 1055  ·  Sh2-125  ·  VdB147
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IC5146, the Cocoon Nebulae, HSS, AnaTa
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IC5146, the Cocoon Nebulae, HSS

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IC5146, the Cocoon Nebulae, HSS

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Main image is HSS. 5min-long O3 exposure produced zero. This is supposed to be emission/reflection nebulae. So, I will work on LRGB image. Although, bortle 7 is not suited for reflection nebulae. 

Processing:
RGB are combined.
Cropping for Ha, S2 and RGB
DBE for Ha, S2 and RGB
Color Colib for RGB
Blur and Noise XT for Ha, S2 and RGB
Manual stretching (with HT) for Ha, S2 and RGB
Star XT for RGB. These stars were saved for processing.

Combined HSS in PixelMath
Red: 1.1*Ha - 0.3*S2-5min
Green: 1.1*S2-5min +0.05*Ha
Blue: 1.5*S2-3min

Noise XT again 
Stretching again 
Star XT. These stars have been discarded. 

Simple Lum mask for HSS 
Local Histogram Equalization: Kernel radius of 40, 150 and then 250
Multiscale-median 0,4 setting transform for sharpness. 
Curves: saturation and brightness are manipulated slightly 
Mask off.
Saturated and reduced RGB stars are added to HSS image.
Done

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IC5146, the Cocoon Nebulae, HSS, AnaTa

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