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Flame and Horsehead Nebula Wide Field HaRGB, mikefulb
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Flame and Horsehead Nebula Wide Field HaRGB

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Flame and Horsehead Nebula Wide Field HaRGB, mikefulb
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Flame and Horsehead Nebula Wide Field HaRGB

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I test of combining Ha from my light polluted home with RGB from a SQM 21 site. Overall the blending wasn't too hard. I think the very cold weather might have started pinching the optics in my SV70T as I saw much more odd artifacts around brighter stars than I normally see. I tried to clean it up some in Photoshop but thought it gives the image some character since that is just one of the things that happens when imaging.

I'm really impressed now when I see some of the nice deep images of this area - I have almost 9 hours into this one and it could definitely benefit from 2x as much.

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Flame and Horsehead Nebula Wide Field HaRGB, mikefulb