Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3718  ·  NGC 3729
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NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West, Jerry Yesavage
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NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West

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NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West, Jerry Yesavage
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NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West

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This was tricky to process for me. I added the L to the RGB image using the basic Perris techniques:

http://www.pixinsight.com/videos/NGC1808LRGB-vperis/index.html

This was after considerable noise reduction in the unstretched L image. Long exposure picked up a lot of "stuff" in the background. Cooler heads might have done better with this than I.

Noise reduction followed this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZOnJHytX3I

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  • NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West, Jerry Yesavage
    Original
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    NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West, Jerry Yesavage
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B

Description: NeatImage Plug in used.... quite a difference I think.

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C

Description: Too much increase in saturation in previous version. This is just a straight clip.

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D

Description: Final color adjustment and slight stretch

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NGC 3718 from Deep Sky West, Jerry Yesavage

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