Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7023  ·  VdB139
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NGC 7023 - The Iris nebula in Cepheus, Daniel.P
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NGC 7023 - The Iris nebula in Cepheus

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NGC 7023 - The Iris nebula in Cepheus, Daniel.P
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NGC 7023 - The Iris nebula in Cepheus

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The second photo of this summer ... the color of the stars ned to be improved.

FWHM measured in PI : 2.1 arcsec (Moffat 4) : the seeing was quite good on average, ranging between 2.4 to 1.6 arcsec on sub exposures

I was not able to apply Background Equalization process on this image due to the nebula covering the whole image. If someone has experience of how to use DBE process in PI in this situation, I would like very much to share experience.

I am doing some processes on the non linear image now : TGV denoise with linear mask, HRD, color sat, Multiscale denoising. The main advantage is that it is easier to tune masking and use linear mask in some processes.

I also denoise under the following scheme : TGV to remove small scale noise and fine tune larger scale noise in low signal area using Multi Scale denoising processes.

Pre-processing done in Pixinsight :

- overscan area offset correction

- bias correction

- dark correction using 7 x 1800 s darks

- flat correction

- hot pixel correction

- debayer

- registration

- stack

Processing done in Pixinsight :

- backgroung color neutralisation

- color calibration using nebula

- non linear image creation

- HDR compression, scale 8, overdrive 0.4, median transform,

- TGV denoise : to remove small scale noise, using a linear mask

- Median Multi Scale noise reduction masked, to remove remaining larger scale noise (scale 8)

- color saturation boost masked

- green neutral

- final color adjust

Final image :

- jpeg calibration done in Mac Photo (levels adjust and further saturation boost and color balance)

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NGC 7023 - The Iris nebula in Cepheus, Daniel.P