Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr)  ·  Contains:  Lagoon Nebula  ·  M 20  ·  M 8  ·  NGC 6514  ·  NGC 6523  ·  NGC 6526  ·  NGC 6530  ·  The star 4 Sgr  ·  The star 7 Sgr  ·  The star 9 Sgr  ·  Trifid Nebula
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M8 and M20 Wide Field, Jeff Rothstein
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M8 and M20 Wide Field

Revision title: M8 and M20, with Stars in Original Palette

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M8 and M20 Wide Field

Revision title: M8 and M20, with Stars in Original Palette

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The familiar Trifid and Lagoon  Nebulae in one frame.  This is my second use of the Foraxx palette, and I was a bit surprised to see the image retain the more "natural" red and blue colors of the original integrated image.  I switched to Foraxx when I found myself struggling to bring out the blue using the traditional palette.

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Title: M8 and M20, with Stars in Original Palette

Description: The Foraxx palette stars seemed off to the blue, so I extracted the stars from my original image, after DBE and BXT but before splitting channels. I ran SPCC, gave the image a gentle stretch with the midtone slider in Histogram Transformation, and then re-screened them to my starless Foraxx image of the nebulae. Better or no?

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M8 and M20 Wide Field, Jeff Rothstein