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Horsehead Nebula in SHO, Alex
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Horsehead Nebula in SHO

Horsehead Nebula in SHO, Alex
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Horsehead Nebula in SHO

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Had an opportunity to get a few hours of data between some bad weather.  I have been wanting to shoot the Horsehead Nebula with my ASI6200MM since I got it, so I decided to give it a go.  This was my first go at using PixInsight for most of the workflow.

The workflow is not necessarily a recommendation as it was my first go at it, but more for me to remember what I did lol.

Stacking and drizzle integration in PI, StarAlignment, DynamicCrop, DynamicBackgroundExtraction, NoiseXterminator, StarXterminator, BlurXterminator on the starless image, HistogramTransformation on starless image and stars image, SCNR on starless, combination of the stars and starless using PixelMath, ColorSaturation.

Brought into Affinity Photo 2 to do some final touchups.

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Horsehead Nebula in SHO, Alex