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22 Hours on NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula, Matt Nudi
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22 Hours on NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula

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22 Hours on NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula, Matt Nudi
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22 Hours on NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula

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Pacman nebula processed in a HSO-based palette, captured from home in December. After 15 hours some of the background dust showing up in greater detail which was nice to see. The pacman is not one of my favorite targets but I had never imaged it previously so figured it was about time to get an image completed of it. The specific pixelmath I used for the combination was:

R - 0.85*Ha+0.15*SII+0.15*OIII
G - 0.8*
SII+0.3*OIII+0.1*Ha
B - 0.8*OIII+0.3*SII+0.1*Ha

The stars were extracted from the separate RGB master that was created and merged back in with the HSO image. I used the star reduction script to blend the starless and regular images at the end.

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22 Hours on NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula, Matt Nudi