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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas, Mitch Trilling
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas

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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas, Mitch Trilling
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas

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I shot this back in the fall of 2011 at the Illinois Dark Sky Star Party, but was unable to get the image processed to my satisfaction until I started using Pixinsight. By using pixel math I was able to combine the Red and Ha in the proper percentages to use as the red channel and later as the luminance channel weighted at 70%. This allowed me to get a much truer red and avoid the salmon colors that typically result when using Ha for luminance in an RGB image.

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Description: This revision of my original image was touched up in the newest version of Adobe Lightroom using the dehaze tool. The noise was the reduced using Topaz Denoise AI.

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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas, Mitch Trilling