Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Bubble nebula  ·  NGC 7635  ·  Sh2-162
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Bubble Nebula in Hubble Palette (NGC7635), Willem Jan Drijfhout
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Bubble Nebula in Hubble Palette (NGC7635), Willem Jan Drijfhout
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The bubble nebula, an intriguing object with a very distinct structure.

The second narrow-band image that I processed in the Hubble Palette. It was quite difficult to get the colors right. There is very little signal in the S and O-channels, compared to the Ha-channel, so the image is mostly green when doing the initial channel combination. Although total exposure is 9h, the image could greatly benefit from more S and O-data. All channels were recorded at gain 139, so increasing gain to 300, or binning 2x2 might help to get better S and O-data.

For noise reduction, based on some recent suggestions, MureDenoise was used on the stacked single-channel images. This tool really works great! Has a very natural and pleasing noise-reduction effect without making the whole picture muddy. There are a few artifacts still visible in the highlights visible from it, so will have to perfect the technique a bit more, but really intend to use it as my standard denoising.

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Bubble Nebula in Hubble Palette (NGC7635), Willem Jan Drijfhout