Rho Ophiuchi Nebula, Sharpless 2-9, Antares Nebula & Messier 4 (Christophe Perroud)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: 19 omi Sco · 20 sig Sco · 21 alf Sco · 22 i Sco · 5 rho Oph · Alniyat · Antares · B42 · IC 4603 · IC 4604 · IC 4605 · LBN 1101 · LBN 1104 · LBN 1105 · LBN 1106 · LBN 1107 · LBN 1108 · LBN 1109 · LBN 1110 · LBN 1111 · LBN 1112 · LDN 1676 · LDN 1680 · LDN 1681 · LDN 1683 · LDN 1684 · LDN 1686 · LDN 1687 · LDN 1688 · LDN 1689 · And 16 more.

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Rho Ophiuchi Nebula, Sharpless 2-9, Antares Nebula & Messier 4

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Image taken during a trip to La Palma Island last week. Very very good seeing for this imaging session, I've been lucky to shot Rho Ophiuchi Region near 40° above horizon. Setup worked perfectly as well :-)

Image réalisée durant un voyage sur l'île de La Palma la semaine dernière. Excellente condition de prise de vue, je suis chanceux d'avoir pu imager cette région du ciel à presque 40° au-dessus de l'horizon. Le setup a également fonctionné parfaitement :-)

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Description: Add script "DarkStructureEnhance", redo "CurveTransformation" with mask for colors enhancement in the nebulas only.

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Description: I tried this time to work on star field and details enhancement with more accurate masks in Pix. Looks not bad to me. Feedback, comment and criticism are welcome ;-)

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Description: As the weather isn't still cooperating with me, I enjoy working on old image, trying to improve my skills in PI. Redo a new stretching process using a mix of MaskedStretch and HistoTransformation to better preserve colors and star shape. Was useful to apply HSV repair just before stretching the image. Final touch-up in PS. Hope you'll like this new version!

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RA (center)	16h26m03s.97
RA (top/left)	16h32m57s.78
RA (top/right)	16h19m07s.35
RA (bottom/right)	16h18m53s.62
RA (bottom/left)	16h33m15s.35

Dec (center)	-24°59′23″.2
Dec (top/left)	-22°34′49″.7
Dec (top/right)	-22°35′10″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-27°22′54″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	-27°22′33″.2

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