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A Monkey Head On Fire (NGC2174: SHO palette with RGB stars), Dominik Weinbrenner
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A Monkey Head On Fire (NGC2174: SHO palette with RGB stars), Dominik Weinbrenner
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A Monkey Head On Fire (NGC2174: SHO palette with RGB stars)

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The mono journey continues.

After finishing my Rosette, I was randomly slewing around for targets that were closer to zenith and stumbled upon the Monkey Head.
Even though the reduced Esprit at 412mm focal length is a little short for this target, the laziness took over and I started collecting data right away. This meant that I could still use all my flats which is a very strong argument.

I barely reached 10h total integration; the continuous spontaneous fog on proposedly clear nights is really getting on my nerves.

Processing the narrowband data was pretty straight forward, however, getting the RGB stars blended into the image proved to be very challenging for this target.
I spent hours and hours trying different approaches, especially since removing a stars layer on a 2x drizzled image takes around 15 minutes on my machine. In the end I think I finally found a way to achieve the desired RGB effect. I'll try to use this technique on my Rosette as well to improve the stars there.

For the palette, I chose the classic SHO but with more residual green than in typical Hubble style images. I pushed the sulfur channel to the get a nice rich red tone. I like juicy colours.

Enjoy!

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A Monkey Head On Fire (NGC2174: SHO palette with RGB stars), Dominik Weinbrenner