Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Minor (UMi)  ·  Contains:  1 UMi)  ·  23 UMi)  ·  Alrucaba  ·  Cinosura  ·  Mismar (α UMi  ·  NGC 188  ·  Part of the constellation Ursa Minor (UMi)  ·  The star 2 UMi  ·  The star 24 UMi  ·  The star Polaris  ·  The star Yildun  ·  The star λ UMi  ·  Tramontana  ·  Vildiur (δ UMi  ·  Yilduz
The Polaris Flare, Shikhar Gupta
The Polaris Flare
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The Polaris Flare

Revision title: Updated

The Polaris Flare, Shikhar Gupta
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The Polaris Flare

Revision title: Updated

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Shot way back in July-August 2021, this data was sitting rather unprocessed because of the unspoken first-world problems of Bortle 1 skies - gradients due to airglow. This target was shot over multiple sessions from a spot at a latitude of 32 degrees, which isn't particularly low for a target especially under pristine skies of Spiti, yet the airglow was bad enough to cast uneven red and green glow , which wouldn't go even after multiple rounds of DBE.
A lot more careful DBE took care of the finer gradients while some selective desaturation and shift in colour balance helped me minimize the effect of colour casts caused due to the airglow.

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Description: Boosted brightness

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The Polaris Flare, Shikhar Gupta