Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)
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Barnard 18 in LRGB, Brent Newton
Barnard 18 in LRGB
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A 2020 project that I kept putting off until it got buried in other, newer projects. This is a ribbon of Dark Nebula in the Taurus molecular cloud (~430 l.y.), one of numerous interesting views in that area of sky

Housekeeping:
 - Common Crop
 - LFit R/B to G
 - Single pass DBE on R, G, B
 - Channel Combine RGB
 - DBE

L processing:
 - Decon
 - Rista method TGVD, MMT
 - MaskedStretch, Histogram stretch
 - Rista ACDNR
 - LRGB Combination

RGB Processing: 
 - PCC
 - SCNR
 - Magenta Star Fix
 - Rista TGVD, MMT
 - ArcSinH, MaskedStretch
 - Background Neutralization
 - LRGB Combination

LRGB Processing:
 - Curves Contrast, HT tweaks
 - Adam Block, MT star reductions
 - ACDNR for additional color NR
 - Star Saturation increase
 - Annotation, Signature applied (Photoshop)

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Barnard 18 in LRGB, Brent Newton

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