Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  Whale Galaxy
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C32 Whale Galaxy - OSC/UVIR, Arny
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C32 Whale Galaxy - OSC/UVIR

Revision title: adding another night

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C32 Whale Galaxy - OSC/UVIR, Arny
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C32 Whale Galaxy - OSC/UVIR

Revision title: adding another night

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Description

Edge on C32, the so called Whale Galaxy, reveals the beauty of its bulge structure and halo arouind its central star burst area.

C32 is 30million light years away and is accompanied by a dwarf galaxy NGC4627.

Image was taken in 162 x 2min exposures on an OSC under a simple UVIR-cut filter, reducing the processing effort quite a bit compared to LRGBH mono :-).

Processing was:
- linfit to lowest noise color
- graxpert gradient removal
- SPCC color calibration (not much needed)
- BlurX and NoiseX terminator
- EZ Softstretch stretching
- HDRMT with 8 layers
- CurvesTrafo for contrast and saturation with a luminance mask

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    C32 Whale Galaxy - OSC/UVIR, Arny
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C

Title: reprocessing L channel sharpening

Description: - WBPP
- linfit
- graxpert gradient
- blurX
- graxpert denoise
- EZsoft stretch

- L extract
- clip blacks in HistoTrafo
- PixMath blend unsharpenings result unsharp, MSLT and HdrMT
- GraxPert Denoise

- LRGBCombi L into RGB
- curves saturation and slight contrast
- crop

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D

Title: adding another night

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E

Title: adding Ha channel

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F

Title: reworked the bulge for more nebulosity and yellowish glow I had in the version before adding Ha

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G

Title: finetuned HdrMT leading to better core contrast and strengthened red channel

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C32 Whale Galaxy - OSC/UVIR, Arny

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