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IC 1805, The Heart Nebula, Bob Rucker
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IC 1805, The Heart Nebula

Revision title: IC 1805, The Heart Nebula - Processed with Pixinsight

IC 1805, The Heart Nebula, Bob Rucker
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IC 1805, The Heart Nebula

Revision title: IC 1805, The Heart Nebula - Processed with Pixinsight

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Off and on monsoon clouds have really made imaging challenging this summer. More clouds are on the way but I did manage to capture the Heart Nebula. I will probably take another stab at processing this image as the data was good but I feel like the final product is not where I want it to be.

At least it's starting to cool off during the evening allowing me to set my camera cooler to -15C. Definitely looking forward to the monsoon clouds clearing out.

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Description: Testing out a revised workflow which only uses Astro Pixel Processor for stacking and light pollution removal for each individual SHO and RGB channel. Photoshop was then used to process each individual narrowband channel by first removing stars with StarExterminator. Narrowband channels were processed seperately for various adjustments and then combined into a starless Hubble color palette using Annie's Astro Actions.

RGB layers were combined after individual channel tweaks using Annie's Astro Actions RGB combine. Star layer was added to the SHO layer pasting with a linear dodge. This was a bit more work than using Astro Pixel Processor for combining the channels but I feel like this method provides a bit more control over the color adjustments.

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Title: IC 1805, The Heart Nebula - Processed with Pixinsight

Description: While going through some old data, I realized I never went back and gave this target the Pixinsight treatment. Imaging data was pretty solid but initial processing was pretty deficient. This version is hopefully a step in the right direction.

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IC 1805, The Heart Nebula, Bob Rucker