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NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
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NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula)

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NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
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NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula)

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Description

My first attempt at The Pac-man Nebula in Hubble palette. Definitely needs more time, will probably gather more data this week, but I like to see what I can get out of the subs I have.

I also would like to capture just the stars in RGB, because I really don't like the unnatural star color I get with narrowband. I'm sure there is a way to do it in PixInsight, the only question is how many days will it take to figure it out

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  • NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
    Original
  • NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
    B
  • NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
    C
  • NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
    D
  • NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
    E
  • Final
    NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís
    F

B

Description: I changed the color combination to:
R = 0.5 x SII + 0.5 x Ha
G = 0.9 x Ha + 0.1 x OIII
B = 1.0 x OIII

I like the hue and internal contrast of the result. Also, I saturated the colors less this time to make the result less iridescent.

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C

Description: Slight curves adjustment

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D

Description: A very nice new color combination that was graciously suggested by the awesome and very helpful Ruben Barbosa!

R: 75% SII + 25%Ha
G: 33% SII + 33% Ha + 33%OII
B: 100% OIII

I used Ha alone as a pseudo-luminance because the data quality for the other filters was much lower and introduced too much noise when mixed with Ha for pseudo-luminance.

Thanks again to Ruben for the tips! Input like this is what makes AstroBin such a fantastic community, especially for someone like me who is still daunted by the complexities of the image processing! And doubly for those of us moving to narrow band from a DSLR!

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E

Description: Similar to D, except with more noise reduction and increased contrast between nebula and background.

Again, many thanks to Ruben for his suggestions with the processing of this image!

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F

Description: Slight background reduction from E.

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NGC281 (The Pac-man Nebula), Eric Solís