NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 (galactic_surfer)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: HD269644 · HD269679 · HD269698 · HD269702 · HD269713 · HD269714 · HD269717 · HD269723 · HD269724 · HD269726 · HD269733 · NGC 2011 · NGC 2014 · NGC 2020 · NGC 2021

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NGC 2014 and NGC 2020

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NGC 2014 and NGC 2020

These nebulae are part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 163,000 light-years away. Data (about 12 hours of narrowband) is from 2021 and captured by a Planewave CDK24 in El Sauce Observatory, Chile, courtesy of telescope.live.

PixInsight:
- Cosmetic Correction to remove defects
- WBPP to integrate lights (already corrected by telescope.live)
- Dynamic crop
- DBE (not needed ultimately based on a comparison of before vs. after)
- EZ Decon script
- Stretched via MaskedStretch and HistogramTransformation
- StarXTerminator to separate nebula and stars
- PixelMath using stars-only images to create more colorful stars in new image

Photoshop
- DeNoise AI for noise removal in each image
- Combined images in layers, used clipping layer masks to tweak hue and saturation (Travis Rector method mentioned in Charles Bracken's book)
- Blended stars-only image
- Tweaked levels, contrast, and vibrance using adjustment layers

My next goal is to do an entire processing run in PixInsight only.

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Description: Reprocessed all in PixInsight (without Photoshop this time), using BXT instead of EZ Decon, and tried a slightly different color palette via PixelMath. The source data is not the best (blown out stars and bloat) but fun to play around with nonetheless.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	6836308
PixInsight job	FXLMKBS7R8VYY5T6UF2REQRCJ3OHY845
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h32m05s.687
RA (top/left)	05h34m32s.933
RA (top/right)	05h29m44s.616
RA (bottom/right)	05h29m35s.339
RA (bottom/left)	05h34m29s.660

Dec (center)	-67°40′17″.54
Dec (top/left)	-67°25′56″.78
Dec (top/right)	-67°25′22″.63
Dec (bottom/right)	-67°54′30″.68
Dec (bottom/left)	-67°55′05″.30

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