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The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius, Philip Herbst
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The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius

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The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius

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A beautiful emission nebula in Sagittarius. Photographed from a dark site.
Bortle 2, SQM 21.51.

Esprit 100
ASI 1600 MM pro
R,G and B: 10x 300s each
HA: 23 x 300s

Darks, Flats, Bias x 25 each.

Calvinia, Karoo Highlands, South Africa

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Description: Experimenting with some techniques. The HA layer added nice detail on the previous image but caused the image to look flatter. For this version, I integrated HA into the Red channel and mixed a synthetic luminous into the HA luminous. This was then integrated into the HA enriched RGB layer using the max function of Pixelmath. I kept the stars more prominent also as this is a star rich field but the process has somewhat oversaturated the stars which I must work on. A very different result which was the idea with this experiment.

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Description: Star reduction to make the nebula appear a little more prominent.

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The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius, Philip Herbst

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