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M45 by Moonlight, Remco Hekker
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M45 by Moonlight

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M45 by Moonlight

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This is my very first astrophoto!

So, please be gentle. ;-)



I considered removing the background and moonlight gradient. It felt a little empty so I decided to add 30% of the background back in. The crop really helped me with the amount I could play with the gamma. And get a lot of nebulosity back. Did some noise reduction. Only added some sharpening in CaptureOne because I haven't learned how to do it in PI jet.

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M45 by Moonlight, Remco Hekker

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