Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2359  ·  Sh2-298
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Thor's Helmet Bi-color/SHO hybrid, Kevin Morefield
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Thor's Helmet Bi-color/SHO hybrid

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Thor's Helmet Bi-color/SHO hybrid

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Thor's Helmet shines strongest in the OIII channel which allows for some non-conventional processing. I was thinking bi-color and shot 20 OIII and 45 Ha, but then added 17 SII later to see if it would help. The SII was too weak to stand on it's own so I added the Ha and SII together 3:1. I used the Ha+SII for Red, Ha+OIII for Green, and just OIII for Blue. So it's sort of an SII enhanced Bi-color.

Subs were all 20 minutes for a total time of about 27 hours.

Processing was in CCDStack and Photoshop. Sharpened with Unsharpmask and noise reduction in Topaz de-noise.

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Description: Still using the data loss as an opportunity to improve images! LAB color adjustments, Star reduction, clean-up.

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Thor's Helmet Bi-color/SHO hybrid, Kevin Morefield