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Rosette Nebula in Hubble Palette (NGC2237), Willem Jan Drijfhout
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Rosette Nebula in Hubble Palette (NGC2237), Willem Jan Drijfhout
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Having used a 1000mm refractor (TOA-130) for a year now, a wider-field refractor (FSQ-106, 530mm) was added to my setup. My first target was the rosette nebula in narrow-band. The faster focal ratio of f/5.0 compared to the f/7.5 of th TOA was imminent in that with 6 hours of exposure the detail was quite good and comparable to something like 10h of the longer lens.

First time processing a Hubble palette to narrow-band data. The typical magenta-stars were easily removed using the invert/green removal process. When pulling around with the curves using the various colour masks, it became very clear that the result is more about taste/art than it is about real/true.

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Rosette Nebula in Hubble Palette (NGC2237), Willem Jan Drijfhout