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Westerhout 5   The Soul Nebula, Carl Weber
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Westerhout 5 The Soul Nebula

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Westerhout 5 The Soul Nebula

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Description

I bet most of you didn't recognize the name....neither did I. After some research, I discovered that this is the nebula's true name.

The image is an SHO blend of the Hubble Pallet.

100x300 Ha

54x300 OIII

17x300 SII

50 darks, flats, bias

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  • Westerhout 5   The Soul Nebula, Carl Weber
    Original
  • Westerhout 5   The Soul Nebula, Carl Weber
    B
  • Westerhout 5   The Soul Nebula, Carl Weber
    C
  • Final
    Westerhout 5   The Soul Nebula, Carl Weber
    D

B

Description: continue to work on processing skills

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C

Description: Used Starnet to process the nebula. Applied Ha back onto stack as a luminance layer

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D

Description: A complete reprocess from scratch. This time I used Photoshop in conjunction with PixInsight. This is a HaSHO mix

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Westerhout 5   The Soul Nebula, Carl Weber