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Image of the day 02/15/2015

M 106, Lorenzo Siciliano
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M 106

Image of the day 02/15/2015

M 106, Lorenzo Siciliano
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M 106

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Hi all.

This image is not so good, but my intent was to try to emphasize the red jets emanating from the nucleus of this Seyfert galaxy.

Usually they are prominent in Ha band, but this image has not any Ha.

It's only an LRGB, but... I enhanced the red channel a lot, trying to not unbalance the chrominance.

Eventually, something is visible.

Jets are apparent, even if the overall image suffers this processing: too much noise, some posterizing in the shadows (final tweak was done in 8 bit, my great mistake!!!!!!), but that is, for now.

Enjoy.

Lorenzo

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