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NGC 1499: California Nebula, ivnlpz
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NGC 1499: California Nebula

NGC 1499: California Nebula, ivnlpz
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NGC 1499: California Nebula

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Description

The California Nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. Its name comes from its resemblance to the outline of the US State of California.

Preprocessing in PI:
- WBPP for calibration, cosmetization, and debayaring
- StarAlignment
- NormalizeScaleGradient
- ImageIntegration

Processing in PI:
- DynamicCrop
- DBE
- PixelMath to split into Ha and Oiii layers
- EZ Decon and EZ Denoise on Ha
- LinearFit on Oiii using Ha as reference
- EZ soft stretch
- PixelMath, Convolution, and HistogramTransformation on each layer to reduce star halos
- PixelMath to combine into HOO image
- LRGBCombination using Ha as luminance
- SCNR
- CurvesTransformation
- ACDNR
- MLT to slightly sharpen image
- LocalHistogramEqualization using RangeSelection mask
- DarkStructureEnhance
- final CurvesTransformation
- EZ star reduction

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